Kristi

Try Kristi

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Kristi Regular

About Kristi

Kristi is a script typeface that Birgit Pulk wrote with an ordinary felt pen, using bold and quick movements. The official notes link it to old chancery typefaces and explain that the name is a common Estonian girl's name. In the specimen the writing leans hard to the right, the lowercase bodies are tiny compared with the ascenders and descenders, and vertical strokes are slim and close together, so a word looks like a row of tall slanted lines. Some letters join and others stop short, as in real fast handwriting, and details such as the g end in a small twist. Capitals are narrow and only a little more elaborate than the lowercase. The family is one Regular file with 209 glyphs covering basic Latin. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Kristi works

Signature-style logotypes

A name in Kristi looks signed with a pen, the large-size use its designer suggests.

Headlines over photographs

Tall slim strokes add a handwritten line to fashion, travel or food imagery without covering much of the picture.

Cards and personal notes

The quick felt-pen rhythm gives a greeting or thank-you line the look of a note written in a hurry.

Product names on labels

A single word set large shows the long ascenders and the twist on g that mark the design.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French œ, Œ, Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Kristi

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

body {
  font-family: "Kristi", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Needs large sizes

The lowercase bodies are very small in relation to the ascenders, so Kristi must be set big to stay readable.

One slanted style

There is a single file at weight 400. The slant is built into the letters; no upright or bold version exists.

French lacks two rare letters

French is covered except for œ and capital Ÿ. The glyph set is basic Latin only.

FAQs

Collections with Kristi

• Signature-style fonts

  Fine-line scripts and fast cursive hands that look like a signed name, for sign-offs, photography marks and personal branding.

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