Grandstander

Try Grandstander

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Grandstander Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Grandstander ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Grandstander Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Grandstander Regular Italic
• Medium 500Grandstander Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Grandstander SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Grandstander Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Grandstander ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Grandstander Black Black Italic

Grandstander is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Grandstander

Grandstander is a display family whose letters look drawn by hand with a round-tipped pen. In the specimen the strokes end in soft curves, several letters lean or flare slightly, the A narrows unevenly toward the top and the w is built from rounded arches, yet the overall rhythm stays regular enough for a few lines of text. The family is a variable font with one axis, weight, running from 100 to 900. Nine named weights from Thin to Black come upright and italic, 18 styles in total. Its 839 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Tyler Finck leads the project and runs Etcetera Type Co in Ithaca, New York; the designer credits list him together with ETC, and the copyright notice names The Grandstander Project Authors. Grandstander is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Grandstander works

Children's books and learning material

Soft stroke ends and slightly wobbly letters give titles and short passages a friendly, hand-made tone.

Snack, toy and game packaging

ExtraBold and Black fill a label with chunky, rounded letters, while the lighter weights handle the smaller lines.

App and game titles

A weight axis from 100 to 900 lets a title animate or step between light and heavy states in one font file.

Comics and captions

Upright and italic in nine weights separate speech, emphasis and sound effects without leaving the family.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Grandstander

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Grandstander on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Grandstander";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Grandstander-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Grandstander";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Grandstander-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Grandstander", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Grandstander with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Grandstander:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

The download holds one variable font for the upright styles and one for the italics, each covering weights 100 to 900.

A display face by intent

The official notes present Grandstander as a display font. Its irregular details show most clearly in headings and short text.

Latin and Vietnamese

The character sets are Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

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