Vast Shadow

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Vast Shadow Regular

About Vast Shadow

Vast Shadow is a wide slab serif display face with a built-in shadow. Each letter in the specimen is a heavy, extended form standing on thick rectangular serifs, trailed down and to the right by a thin outline that reads as a cast shadow. The lowercase a is single-storey, and the figures are as broad as the capitals. The official notes place the design among Victorian advertising types and warn that the fine shadow line does not hold up at small sizes, recommending 32px or more. There is one Regular 400 file, no italic and no variable axis. The 231 glyphs cover the basic Latin set: English, German, Spanish, Italian and the Nordic languages are complete, and French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ. Nicole Fally is the designer; the license notice names Sorkin Type Co, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Vast Shadow works

Victorian-style posters

Extended slab letters with a shadow reproduce the look of nineteenth-century advertising in a title of two or three words.

Shop signs and window lettering

The cast-shadow outline gives flat lettering a raised, sign-painted appearance on fascias and A-boards.

Label and menu titles

A product name or section heading in Vast Shadow stands apart from plain text set beneath it.

Web hero headings

At 32px and above, the size the official notes recommend, the shadow line stays crisp on screen.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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 Vast Shadow

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

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

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

Things to know

Use it at 32px or larger

The shadow is a thin line. The official notes say it does not display well at small sizes.

Wide letters need room

The forms are extended, so a line holds fewer characters than it would in a normal-width face.

Basic Latin only

Vast Shadow is listed under the Latin subset alone, with no Latin Extended, Cyrillic or Greek.

One style

There is a single Regular file. The reserved names in the license are Vast and Vast Shadow.

FAQs

Collections with Vast Shadow

• 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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