Mystery Quest

Try Mystery Quest

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mystery Quest Regular

About Mystery Quest

Mystery Quest is a display typeface in which terminals wind into spirals. The specimen shows the curls on the capitals A, D, M and Q, on the tails of g, j and y, inside the s, and even on several numerals. Between the spirals the letters are narrow with strong contrast between thick stems and thin joins, and they tilt and vary in height so that a word looks animated. The official description places the style in the playful mod look of the 1960s. With this much decoration the face belongs in titles, not in sentences of any length. Mystery Quest has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 229 glyphs sit in the Latin subset. The designer is Dave 'Squid' Cohen of Sideshow, a trading name of Font Diner, which holds the copyright; the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mystery Quest works

Halloween and fantasy party invitations

Spiral terminals and tilting letters set a spooky-but-friendly tone in a two-word title.

Children's mystery book covers

The animated, uneven letter heights suggest adventure on a cover or chapter heading.

1960s themed posters

The mod-inspired drawing fits retro event graphics set large.

Board game and puzzle boxes

Curled capitals give a game title its own decoration without added illustration.

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
• Estonian

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 Mystery Quest

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

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

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

Things to know

Spirals need size

The curls are fine details. At small sizes they close up and the letters become hard to tell apart.

One style

Mystery Quest is Regular 400 only.

Latin subset only

The 229 glyphs cover the latin subset; latin-ext, Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Mystery Quest

• Mid-century display fonts from the 1950s to the 1970s

  Bouncing, hand-lettered display faces after post-war advertising, cartoons, motel signs and record covers.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts