Quintessential

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Quintessential Regular

About Quintessential

Quintessential is a calligraphic typeface that reproduces the Italic Hand as written with a broad-edged pen. The lowercase leans to the right and is narrow, with tall ascenders that end in angled pen cuts and descenders that taper to a point; letters do not join, but each begins and ends with the short entry and exit strokes of the pen. Capitals are roman forms with gently swelling strokes, Q has a long sweeping tail, and Z carries a crossbar. The official description places the style at the point where writing hands became quicker and more relaxed. The family consists of one Regular font, which already has the slant of an italic, and it is not a variable font. Its 371 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. The designer credit is Astigmatic, and the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky. Quintessential is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Quintessential works

Invitations and announcements

Pen-cut strokes give names and dates the look of calligraphy written out by hand.

Certificates and diplomas

Roman capitals with a calligraphic lowercase set a recipient's name in a formal but readable way.

Quotations and verse

The unjoined italic letters stay legible over several lines, which a short poem or quotation needs.

Chapter titles in historical or fantasy books

The Italic Hand model lends headings the tone of a manuscript.

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
• 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 Quintessential

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

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

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

Things to know

One style with a built-in slant

Quintessential has Regular 400 only. The lowercase is already italic in form, and there is no bold.

Letters are not connected

Unlike a joined script, each letter stands alone, so spacing can be adjusted without breaking links.

Old-style figures

The numerals have ascenders and descenders and do not align with the capitals.

Latin scripts only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Quintessential

• Calligraphy fonts written with a broad pen

  Broad-nib and flat-pen calligraphic faces: chancery, foundational and uncial hands for certificates, quotations and formal headings.

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