Esteban
Designed By
Angélica Díaz
1 Style Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Esteban · Regular
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Download Esteban ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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The poem ends where it began
A Page In Esteban
Esteban · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
1 Style,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
The poem ends where it began
The stems in Esteban swell and thin as they go, and that movement was taken from the manuscripts of Jorge Alfredo Díaz Esteban, a writer whose pen made a wider stroke the harder it was pressed. Angélica Díaz turned that pressure into a font, which shares his name.
Díaz meant it for literature and poetry. The x-height is tall, the letters moderately compressed so a line holds a fair number of words, the contrast medium and the serifs sturdy. How much contrast was settled by trial: Díaz set text at different densities, different “colors” of gray on the page, until it held up in cheap printing as well as on screen as a web font.
We like it for a small-press poetry book or a literary blog. There is only 1 style, so italics for titles and emphasis would have to come from somewhere else.
On Google Fonts since January 2012.
Characters & Figures
257 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 256 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Esteban
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 25 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/esteban/esteban.css">
body {
font-family: 'Esteban', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Esteban Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.