Whisper

Try Whisper

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Whisper Regular

About Whisper

Whisper is a calligraphic script typeface with a strong forward slant and very thin strokes. In the specimen the lowercase is small, narrow and angular, with long descenders on f, g, p and y, while the capitals are several times wider and open with sweeping entry strokes that run under the letters beside them. Some lowercase letters join and others stop short, as in quick pen writing. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 643 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. According to the official notes, the design dates from the early 1990s. Robert Leuschke is credited as the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The hairline weight and tiny lowercase call for large sizes.

Where Whisper works

Names on invitations

A wide capital followed by the compact lowercase turns a name into the centrepiece of a card.

Signature-style wordmarks

The uneven joins and fast, angular strokes read as a signature written with a pen.

Short quotations and dedications

A single line at a large size keeps the thin strokes visible; several lines in a row become hard to follow.

Vietnamese names and greetings

Whisper includes the accented letters Vietnamese needs, which many script faces leave out.

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
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Whisper

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

body {
  font-family: "Whisper", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Very light strokes

The lines are thin at every point of the letter. On screens and in small print they can break up, so test at the final size.

Capitals are far wider than the lowercase

In the specimen a row of capitals overlaps heavily. They are drawn to begin a word, not to be set in sequence.

One style

Whisper has a single Regular style, with no bold cut.

FAQs

Collections with Whisper

• Signature-style fonts

  Fine-line scripts and fast cursive hands that look like a signed name, for sign-offs, photography marks and personal branding.

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