Trade Winds

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Trade Winds Regular

About Trade Winds

Trade Winds is a display face set entirely in capital forms: the lowercase keys give smaller capitals, so a word begins with a tall letter and continues in small caps. Every glyph leans to the right, and the outlines waver as if printed from worn wood or painted with a dry brush. The capitals A, K, R, Y and Z throw long tails, and the numerals share the same lean. The family has one Regular style, is not variable, and contains 227 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. It is credited to Sideshow, a trading name of Font Diner; the font file itself names Squid as designer. The official description is written around sailing, "the high seas" and exotic ports, which is the kind of theme the letterforms are drawn for.

Where Trade Winds works

Adventure and pirate themes

The ragged, slanted capitals match map, treasure and seafaring artwork for party invitations, games and book covers.

Bar and restaurant signage

Tall initials followed by small caps give a venue name a built-in hierarchy on a sign or menu cover.

Product labels

Rum, spice or coffee labels can set a short name in Trade Winds and rely on the tailed A, K and R for decoration.

Poster and video titles

One style with strong texture works for a title of a few words at large size.

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 Trade Winds

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

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

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

Things to know

No true lowercase

Lowercase input is drawn as small capitals. Mixed case therefore produces caps and small caps, not upper and lower case.

Texture is built in

The uneven edges are part of each outline. At small sizes they read as blur rather than as texture.

One style, basic Latin

There is a single Regular style with 227 glyphs covering Western European languages and Estonian.

FAQs

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