Shadows Into Light

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Shadows Into Light Regular

About Shadows Into Light

Shadows Into Light is a handwriting font that looks like neat print lettering done with a fine marker. The letters are upright, narrow and not joined; ascenders and descenders are long compared with the small lowercase bodies, and every stroke keeps the same thickness and ends in a rounded tip. Shapes vary slightly from letter to letter, as in real writing: the capitals differ in width, the t carries a long crossbar, and the numerals sit at uneven heights. The family has a single Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 352 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Kimberly Geswein designed the font, which was added to Google Fonts in 2011 and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Shadows Into Light works

Quotes on social media

A sentence in the narrow, unjoined letters reads as a handwritten note on an image or story.

Annotations and callouts

Thin, even strokes work as hand-drawn labels and side notes on diagrams, screenshots and slides.

Informal invitations

Party, baby-shower and classroom invitations gain a personal tone from the marker-like writing.

Scrapbook and journal layouts

The slightly uneven letters match photo captions, planner pages and printable stickers.

Blog and newsletter headings

Short headings in Shadows Into Light contrast with a plain text face used for the paragraphs.

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
• Hungarian
• 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 Shadows Into Light

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

body {
  font-family: "Shadows Into Light", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Shadows Into Light 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=Shadows+Into+Light&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

Shadows Into Light has Regular 400 only: no bold, no italic.

Small lowercase, long extenders

The lowercase bodies are small next to the ascenders and descenders, so the font needs a larger size than a text face to stay readable.

Letters do not connect

This is print-style handwriting, not cursive; each letter stands separately.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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