MedievalSharp

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400MedievalSharp Regular

About MedievalSharp

MedievalSharp is a display face whose letters look cut with a chisel. Stems widen toward their ends and stop in sharp diagonal points, bowls are sliced where they meet the stem, and several forms come from older book hands: a rounded uncial-style e, a w made of two joined bowls and a y with a hooked tail. Despite the Gothic source the letters are open and upright, closer to carved capitals than to dense textura. The designer explains that he made it in about 1995, when he began carving inscriptions in stone professionally; it started as capitals and digits, the lowercase followed later, and from 2010 he turned his lettering designs into digital fonts. MedievalSharp has a single Regular style with 403 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Wojciech Kalinowski is credited as designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where MedievalSharp works

Fantasy book and game titles

Pointed stroke ends and the uncial-style e and w set a medieval scene without the reading difficulty of a true blackletter.

Tabletop maps, cards and handouts

Place names and card headings stay legible because the letters are open and upright.

Festival, market and tavern signs

The design began as lettering for stone, and its sturdy capitals hold up when cut, engraved or painted large.

Craft labels

Mead, beer and candle labels can use the sharp capitals for a product name above plainer small print.

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 MedievalSharp

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

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

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

Things to know

Not a broken-stroke blackletter

The official source classes it as a display face. The specimen shows rounded, flared letters rather than the angular fractured strokes of textura or fraktur.

One weight

Regular is the only style. The file reports a slightly heavier internal weight value, yet there is no bold or italic companion.

Reserved name

The license notice reserves the font name MedievalSharp, so a modified version needs a different name.

FAQs

Collections with MedievalSharp

• Blackletter and gothic fonts

  Textura, Fraktur and modern blackletter display faces, plus three medieval-flavored relatives, for mastheads, labels and heavy music artwork.

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