Qwigley

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Qwigley Regular

About Qwigley

Qwigley is a script typeface with the look of fast writing with a pointed pen. The letters lean steeply to the right, strokes taper from thin hairlines to slightly fuller curves, and the lowercase is very small compared with the capitals, which stretch into long horizontal sweeps; in the specimen the Q and the y and g of the sample word throw loops far below the baseline. Some forms are unconventional, a point the official notes make when they call the design contemporary. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. It holds 472 glyphs for the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Robert Leuschke is credited as designer, the copyright notice names The Qwigley Project Authors, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Qwigley works

Signature-style logos

The quick, tapered line makes a first name or a studio name look signed by hand.

Invitation headings

Sweeping capitals lead a pair of names across the top of a card set at a large size.

Beauty and fashion labels

Hairline strokes and a steep slant give a light accent word on packaging or a lookbook.

Photo overlays

One or two words in the fine script sit over an image without covering much of it.

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
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: 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 Qwigley

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

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

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

Things to know

Needs large sizes

The lowercase is tiny and the lines are thin; in the specimen the small sample is hard to read.

One style

Qwigley has only Regular 400.

Long strokes overlap

Capitals and descenders reach well beyond their own width, so tight line spacing causes collisions.

FAQs

Collections with Qwigley

• Signature-style fonts

  Fine-line scripts and fast cursive hands that look like a signed name, for sign-offs, photography marks and personal branding.

Similar fonts

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