Rochester

Try Rochester

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rochester Regular

About Rochester

Rochester is a script typeface whose shapes draw on formal calligraphy from the Victorian era and the Art Deco years. The lowercase is compact and heavy for a script, joined at the baseline, with clear contrast between thick stems and thin links; the capitals are taller, slanted and looped, and several start with a wide entry curl. The numerals in the specimen are a surprise: they stand upright in a high-contrast roman style instead of following the slant. The family is a single Regular font with no variable axis, holding 230 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. The catalogue lists Sideshow as designer; the font's name table credits Gillian Fisher, with Font Diner, Inc DBA Sideshow as manufacturer and copyright holder. Rochester is published under the Apache License 2.0.

Where Rochester works

Formal invitations

Looped capitals and a dense, dark lowercase give names and headings weight on printed cards.

Vintage labels

The Victorian and Art Deco flavour suits bottle labels, barber and tailor branding and period-style menus.

Letterheads and notes

The official notes aim the face at correspondence that wants a formal touch, such as a name line on stationery.

Dates and prices beside script

Upright, high-contrast figures stay easy to read next to the slanted letters.

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 Rochester

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

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

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

Things to know

Apache License, not OFL

Rochester uses the Apache License 2.0: copies carry the license text and notices, and changed files must say they were changed.

One style

Only Regular 400 exists; there is no bold or lighter cut.

Upright numerals

Figures do not slant with the letters, which is visible when numbers sit inside a line of script.

Basic Latin subset

The font lists the Latin subset only, with 230 glyphs.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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