Astloch
Designed By
Dan Rhatigan
2 Styles Display
The evening
edition.
Astloch · Regular
Try a short headline and compare the letterforms at a larger scale.
2 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Astloch ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Deep in the Black Forest
A Headline In Place
Astloch · Regular
A poster setting with supporting text.
Theatre / Music / Conversation
An Evening
In Good
Company.
Friday · 7:30 pm
The Assembly Rooms
2 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Deep in the Black Forest
Bold700
Deep in the Black Forest
An Astloch is a knot in a tree or in a plank of wood. Dan Rhatigan picked the German word to point at the font’s German roots, and also to keep the woodland theme of Copse, his first commission for Google’s web fonts project.
The starting point was fraktur, with its mix of sharp angles and florid curves. Rhatigan stripped out the thick and thin contrast of the strokes, which left him reworking the joins and alignments and inventing new letter shapes, the capitals above all, that would still read as Germanic once they were monolinear. The result comes in 2 versions, a delicate Regular and a sturdy Bold.
He meant it for display only, choosing big, playful shapes over legibility at small sizes, and we would not argue with that. Keep it for a title.
Rhatigan studied for the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading and went on to Monotype in London, working on non-Latin typefaces, mostly Indic scripts.
Characters & Figures
209 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 206 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Astloch
2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 63 KB ↓- Version
- 1.002
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/astloch/astloch.css">
body {
font-family: 'Astloch', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Astloch Heading · Inter Body
The Evening Performance
Doors open at seven. The performance begins at half past. Please take your seat before the lights go down.