WindSong

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400WindSong Regular
• Medium 500WindSong Medium

About WindSong

WindSong is a script typeface drawn with a fine, fast line that stretches sideways more than it rises. In the specimen the capitals throw long horizontal strokes far to the left and right, the lowercase is small and wide with thin joining strokes, and descenders end in large open loops, so a word looks like a quick signature. The official description calls it an elongated script and notes that it carries several stylistic sets. The family has two static weights, Regular 400 and Medium 500, without italics, and is not a variable font. Each font holds 759 glyphs for 493 encoded characters, covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is the designer, the copyright notice names The WindSong Project Authors, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where WindSong works

Signature-style logos

A name in WindSong reads as a personal autograph because the capitals sweep and the lowercase runs low and wide.

Wedding invitations

Sweeping capitals carry the couple's names, with Medium available when the Regular line is too fine for the paper.

Photography watermarks

A thin, horizontal script sits lightly across the corner of an image.

Quotes on cards

Two or three words in the joined lowercase give a card the look of a handwritten note.

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
• 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 WindSong

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 WindSong 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: "WindSong";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/WindSong-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "WindSong";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/WindSong-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves WindSong 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=WindSong:wght@400;500&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals need lowercase

In the specimen an all-capitals row tangles into overlapping swashes; the capitals are made to open a word.

Very small lowercase

The lowercase is short relative to the capitals and loops, so WindSong has to be set large to be read.

Two weights close together

Regular 400 and Medium 500 differ slightly in stroke thickness. There is no bold.

FAQs

Collections with WindSong

• 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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