Uncial Antiqua

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Uncial Antiqua Regular

About Uncial Antiqua

Uncial Antiqua is a display typeface that brings two early pen hands, uncial and half-uncial, into a single formal alphabet. The capitals keep rounded uncial shapes: D leans back with a curved stem, E and M are built from bowls, and A opens with a long stroke to the left. In the lowercase, n and r take small-capital forms, t has a curved stem, and a is a single round bowl. Strokes swell and thin as a broad pen would make them and end in wedge-shaped serifs; the figures are old-style, with 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 dropping below the baseline. The family has one Regular style with 371 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. It is credited to Astigmatic and published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Uncial Antiqua works

Book covers and chapter titles

Rounded uncial capitals and half-uncial lowercase give a fantasy or historical title an early-manuscript look.

Game and event titles

Letters such as the curved D and the small-capital n are recognisable at large sizes on a title screen or a festival poster.

Labels for craft goods

A product name set in the single Regular style reads as pen lettering on a bottle or box label.

Wordmarks and crests

The A with its long leading stroke and the round M make distinctive initials for a short name.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• 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 Uncial Antiqua

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Uncial Antiqua has a single Regular style and is not a variable font. There is no bold or italic.

Old-style figures

The numerals rise and fall like lowercase letters, so dates and prices do not align to one height.

Romanian letters are incomplete

Latin Extended is included, but the comma-below letters used in Romanian (U+0218 to U+021B) are not in the font.

Reserved name

The copyright notice reserves the font name Uncial Antiqua, so a modified version has to be given a different name unless permission is granted.

FAQs

Collections with Uncial Antiqua

• Calligraphy fonts written with a broad pen

  Broad-nib and flat-pen calligraphic faces: chancery, foundational and uncial hands for certificates, quotations and formal headings.

• Blackletter and gothic fonts

  Textura, Fraktur and modern blackletter display faces, plus three medieval-flavored relatives, for mastheads, labels and heavy music artwork.

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