Edu TAS Beginner
Designed By
Tina Anderson, Corey Anderson
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Edu TAS Beginner · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Edu TAS Beginner ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Sam fed the hens today
A Note On The Page
Edu TAS Beginner · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Sam fed the hens today
Medium500
Sam fed the hens today
Semi Bold600
Sam fed the hens today
Bold700
Sam fed the hens today
Children in Tasmania spend years 1 and 2 on a sloped print the state calls the Beginners Alphabet, and only in year 3 do they move on to Pre-Cursive. Edu TAS Beginner is that first hand, the one children copy off the board in their first school years.
Tina and Corey Anderson drew it for the Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools, a set built because each Australian state teaches its own handwriting model in lower primary (a few states share one). The Regular is about as heavy as a pencil line, which is the point of it: a child should look at the printed letter and recognize the mark they make themselves. Medium, Semi Bold and Bold go up from there, handy for headings on a worksheet.
You will notice how short the small letters are against the capitals, about half their height, which leaves the ascenders on the d and h plenty of room to climb.
The character set is lean, 126 characters covering basic Latin and the common math signs. Schools on Google Workspace get it straight in Docs and Slides; the complete OpenType build lives on the project’s GitHub.
Characters & Figures
126 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 124 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Edu TAS Beginner
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 52 KB ↓- Version
- 1.003
- 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/edu-tas-beginner-2/edu-tas-beginner-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Edu TAS Beginner', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Edu TAS Beginner Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.