Old Standard TT

Try Old Standard TT

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Old Standard TT Regular Italic
• Bold 700Old Standard TT Bold

About Old Standard TT

Old Standard TT is a serif typeface in the Modern or classicist manner: thick vertical stems, hairline serifs and joins, and round ball shapes ending letters such as a, c, f and r, all visible in the specimen. Alexey Kryukov drew it to reproduce a kind of type that filled books and journals around 1900 and was later largely dropped. The official notes recommend it for scientific papers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, because readers associate the style with old textbooks. The name is a counterpart to Obyknovennaya Novaya, or New Standard, a related face used widely in Soviet printing. The download has three static files, Regular, Italic and Bold; there is no bold italic file. Each font holds 938 glyphs with Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets. It was added to Google Fonts in 2010.

Where Old Standard TT works

Humanities papers and theses

The official notes suggest this style for social science and humanities writing because it recalls older scholarly editions.

Period book design

Hairline serifs and ball terminals reproduce the look of printing from around 1900 for reissues and historical projects.

Russian-language literature

Cyrillic is included and belongs to the same classicist tradition the design revives.

Title pages and chapter openings

At large sizes the strong contrast between stems and hairlines becomes the main visual feature.

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
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Old Standard TT

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 Old Standard TT 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: "Old Standard TT";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/OldStandardTT-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Old Standard TT";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/OldStandardTT-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Old Standard TT";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/OldStandardTT-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Old Standard TT", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Old Standard TT 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=Old+Standard+TT:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Three files in the package

Regular, Italic and Bold are included. A bold italic is not, so software will slant Bold artificially.

Hairlines need size

The thin strokes are very fine in the specimen and can break up in small text on low-resolution screens.

No Greek subset here

This package covers Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese; Greek is not among its subsets.

FAQs

Collections with Old Standard TT

• Serif fonts for academic and scholarly writing

  Text families with very large character sets for theses, journals and critical editions: Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and historical characters.

• High-contrast Didone fonts for fashion and editorial headlines

  Modern-face serifs with hairline serifs and vertical stress: the look of fashion mastheads, beauty packaging and magazine covers.

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