Sancreek

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sancreek Regular

About Sancreek

Sancreek is an ornamented display face in the manner of old wooden poster type. In the specimen the letters are heavy and condensed; stems pinch and swell, a small spur juts out at mid-height, and the serifs split and curl at the ends. Round letters such as C, G and O carry the same spurs, and the ampersand is drawn as a flourish. The official notes present it as a present-day interpretation of large nineteenth-century wood letters, meant chiefly for capitals-only display on the web, though a lowercase with the same decoration is included. The font is one Regular 400 file, without companion weights or a variable axis. Its 406 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including Turkish, Polish, Czech and Romanian letters. Vernon Adams designed Sancreek, published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sancreek works

Western-style posters

Spurred, split-serif capitals reproduce the wood-type look of wanted posters and playbills in a single line.

Saloon, grill and fairground signage

Condensed heavy letters fit a long name across a sign while the mid-stem spurs supply the period decoration.

Event tickets and flyers

Set in capitals, as the design intends, a date or headline becomes the ornamental centre of a ticket.

Vintage-look labels

A product name in Sancreek gives bottles and tins a nineteenth-century print flavour.

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
• 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 Sancreek

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

body {
  font-family: "Sancreek", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

Drawn for capitals

The official notes describe Sancreek as mainly a caps-only display face. A lowercase exists and carries the same ornament.

One style

Sancreek is a single Regular file with no bold or italic.

Latin and Latin Extended

There is no Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese subset.

FAQs

Collections with Sancreek

• Bold vintage fonts for poster design

  Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

Similar fonts

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