Old Standard TT
Designed By
Alexey Kryukov
3 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Old Standard TT · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
3 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Old Standard TT ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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Proceedings of the historical society
A Page In Old Standard TT
Old Standard TT · 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.
3 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Proceedings of the historical society
Italic400
Proceedings of the historical society
Bold700
Proceedings of the historical society
Soviet printers had a typeface called Obyknovennaya Novaya, the “New Standard”. Alexey Kryukov named his font Old Standard as the counterpart, since it reproduces a slightly different type of the same Modern, or classicist, style.
That style filled editions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and then almost vanished. Kryukov argues it still earns its place. Readers link its look with the old books they studied from, which makes it a natural fit for scientific papers, and the humanities and social sciences most of all. And the finest Greek and Cyrillic types were all classicist, so for those scripts he finds a Modern face far more fitting than anything based on Times.
He admits the name is not very original. It does tell you what you are getting: the most common type of the early 20th century, revived.
There are 3 styles, a roman with its italic and a Bold, and the character set covers Cyrillic and Vietnamese next to Latin. A journal article in Russian history, quotes in the original, would look right in it.
Characters & Figures
888 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Old Standard TT
3 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 286 KB ↓- Version
- 3.000
- 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/old-standard-tt-2/old-standard-tt-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Old Standard TT', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Old Standard TT 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.