Quattrocento

Try Quattrocento

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Quattrocento Regular
• Bold 700Quattrocento Bold

About Quattrocento

Quattrocento is a serif typeface with wide, open letters and very little difference between thick and thin strokes. Its stems are cupped and taper into the serifs, the top serifs of the lowercase are nearly flat, and j and y finish without a serif at the bottom. K, R and the ampersand have distinctive tails, and the capital Q ends in a long sweeping stroke that the designer calls a tribute to Doyald Young. An alternate M and two alternate W forms are included, and L and T are drawn narrow so they fit closely with their neighbours. The generous x-height keeps the face legible in small text, while the fine details show at display sizes. Pablo Impallari designed it; Igino Marini and Brenda Gallo are also named in the copyright. It has Regular and Bold, 249 glyphs, and the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Quattrocento works

Body text at small sizes

Low contrast and a generous x-height keep the letters solid when the type is small.

Titles for books and cultural events

The cupped stems and the long-tailed Q become visible features at large sizes.

Quotations and introductions

Wide, open letters give a short passage a calm, classical texture.

Headings over sans serif text

Quattrocento Sans was made as its companion, so serif titles and sans body copy match in proportion.

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 Quattrocento

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Quattrocento 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=Quattrocento:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Quattrocento has Regular 400 and Bold 700 only. Emphasis in text needs Bold or the italic of another family.

Alternates for M and W

The font contains one alternate M and two alternate W shapes, reached through OpenType alternates.

Western European coverage

The 249 glyphs cover English, French, German, Spanish and similar languages; Turkish, Polish and Czech are not among those verified.

Static files

Quattrocento is not a variable font.

FAQs

Collections with Quattrocento

• Fonts for restaurant and café menus

  Serifs, scripts and narrow display faces for menus: a heading face with character and a text face that stays readable in low light.

Similar fonts

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