Inknut Antiqua

Try Inknut Antiqua

Weights and styles

• Light 300Inknut Antiqua Light
• Regular 400Inknut Antiqua Regular
• Medium 500Inknut Antiqua Medium
• SemiBold 600Inknut Antiqua SemiBold
• Bold 700Inknut Antiqua Bold
• ExtraBold 800Inknut Antiqua ExtraBold
• Black 900Inknut Antiqua Black

About Inknut Antiqua

Inknut Antiqua is an Antiqua serif drawn for literature and long reading on screens. Its designer treats web publishing as a present-day private press, and the letters are meant to recall Venetian incunabula and humanist manuscripts, quirks included. In the specimen the forms are wide and dark with low contrast and heavy wedge serifs; the figures are old-style, and the ampersand is written out as a flowing et. Those generous proportions are why the makers consider it suited to low-resolution screens. The family consists of seven static weights from Light 300 to Black 900, all upright, with 1,273 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended plus a Devanagari character set. The name refers to the inknut, a fruit that can be used to make ink. Claus Eggers Sørensen, who works in Amsterdam, leads the project under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Inknut Antiqua works

Essays and long-form articles

The face was drawn for literature, and its wide, low-contrast letters keep their shape on ordinary screens.

Web editions of books

Old-style figures and the written-out et ampersand give title pages and chapter openings the feel of a private-press edition.

Heavy titles and drop caps

ExtraBold 800 and Black 900 keep the same manuscript-like shapes at display sizes, so headings match the text below.

Latin and Devanagari in one family

A Devanagari character set sits beside the Latin one, which helps where both scripts share a page.

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

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Devanagari. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: devanagari, latin, latin-ext. 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 Inknut Antiqua

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 Inknut Antiqua 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: "Inknut Antiqua";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InknutAntiqua-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inknut Antiqua";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InknutAntiqua-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inknut Antiqua";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InknutAntiqua-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inknut Antiqua";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InknutAntiqua-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 3 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Inknut Antiqua", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Inknut Antiqua 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=Inknut+Antiqua:wght@300;400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

All seven styles are upright. Emphasis in text has to be handled with weight or with another family.

Static files, not variable

Each weight from Light to Black is a separate file; there is no variable version in the package.

Tall vertical metrics

The specimen shows long ascenders and descenders and old-style numerals, so lines need generous leading and figures do not align at capital height.

FAQs

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