Joan

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Joan Regular

About Joan

Joan is a serif typeface that takes the roman of the punchcutter Francesco Griffo as its model; its designer, Paolo Biagini, presents it as a tribute to Italian letterforms. The specimen shows moderate contrast, a slanted stress in the round letters, crisp bracketed serifs and pointed terminals. The capital J drops below the baseline, and the default numerals are old-style figures that rise and fall like lowercase. Joan is meant for books and magazines. Only the upright roman exists so far: there is one Regular style, no bold, and the official notes say an italic is being worked on. The font is not a variable font. It holds 1,185 glyphs for 534 encoded characters across the Latin and Latin Extended sets, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Joan works

Chapter openings and book titles

Pointed terminals and the long J give a title page a bookish look at display sizes.

Magazine standfirsts and pull quotes

The family was drawn with magazines in mind, and one upright style is enough for a quote or an introduction.

Poetry and short essays

Texts that need neither bold nor italic can be set in the single roman.

Dates and figures inside sentences

Old-style numerals blend with the lowercase, so years and quantities do not stand out of a line.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Joan

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 Joan 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: "Joan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Joan-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Joan", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Joan 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=Joan&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Roman only

Joan has no italic and no bold. The official notes list the italic as under development.

Old-style figures by default

The numerals in the specimen have ascending and descending shapes instead of a uniform capital height.

More glyphs than characters

1,185 glyphs serve 534 encoded characters; the remainder are unencoded forms reached through OpenType features.

FAQs

Collections with Joan

• Old-style and revival serif fonts for books

  Digital revivals of Renaissance, baroque and later book types, and new designs in the old-style tradition, most with italics, for novels, essays and fine printing.

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