# Trade Winds font > A slanted caps-and-small-caps display face with ragged, ink-worn edges and a seafaring theme. Trade Winds is a display typeface published by Sideshow, a Font Diner label, with slanted capitals, small capitals in place of lowercase and rough, weathered outlines. Trade Winds has one Regular style with 227 glyphs for Western European Latin text. Trade Winds is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is used for themed titles, posters and labels. ## Facts - Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display) - Designed by: Sideshow - License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/) - Styles: 1 (Regular 400) - Variable font: No - Glyphs: 227 - Character sets: latin - Last updated: 2025-09-11 - Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Trade+Winds - Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/trade-winds - Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Logos, Packaging ## 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. ## License SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2011, Sideshow (a DBA of Font Diner, Inc) (www.fontdiner.com), with Reserved Font Name "Trade Winds". Allowed: - Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps. - Modify the fonts and build new versions from them. - Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them. Conditions: - The fonts cannot be sold by themselves. - A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission. - The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission. Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/ ## Where it 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. ## 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 ### Is Trade Winds free for commercial use? Yes. Trade Winds is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use the Reserved Font Name "Trade Winds" without permission. ### Who designed Trade Winds? Trade Winds is credited to Sideshow, a trading name of Font Diner, Inc. The designer field inside the font names Squid. ### Does Trade Winds have lowercase letters? No. In Trade Winds the lowercase keys produce small capitals, so all text appears in capital forms of two heights. ### How many weights does Trade Winds have? Trade Winds has one weight, Regular 400, with no separate italic; the design itself is slanted. ### Which languages does Trade Winds support? Trade Winds includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Estonian and the Nordic languages. --- Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/trade-winds (trendhub)