MedievalSharp
Designed By
Wojciech Kalinowski
1 Style Display
The evening
edition.
MedievalSharp · Regular
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Download MedievalSharp ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Here lies Sir Aldric the Bold
A Headline In Place
MedievalSharp · Regular
A poster setting with supporting text.
Theatre / Music / Conversation
An Evening
In Good
Company.
Friday · 7:30 pm
The Assembly Rooms
1 Style,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Here lies Sir Aldric the Bold
The letters are gothic at heart, and they started life in stone. Wojciech Kalinowski drew MedievalSharp around 1995, when he began cutting inscriptions in stone for a living, and for years it had only capitals and figures. The lowercase and the basic punctuation came later.
In 2010 he set about turning his stone alphabets into digital fonts. The Nova family went first, this one followed, and version 1.0 was dated 12 February 2011, a few weeks before it went up on Google. He built it, like all his fonts, in FontForge.
That first version is the one here, a single Regular. Kalinowski went on refining the design in his own repository for another decade, redrawing letters and adding bold and oblique styles there.
For a game title or the place names on a fantasy novel’s map it has the right flavor. Not for paragraphs.
Characters & Figures
400 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 396 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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MedievalSharp
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 76 KB ↓- Version
- 1.0
- 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/medievalsharp/medievalsharp.css">
body {
font-family: 'MedievalSharp', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
MedievalSharp 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.