Quintessential
Designed By
Astigmatic
1 Style Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Quintessential · Regular
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Download Quintessential ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Table 12, the Garden Room
A Note On The Page
Quintessential · 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.
1 Style,
One Family
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Regular400
Table 12, the Garden Room
Quintessential comes from the Italic Hand, the calligraphic script that grew up when writers needed speed and let the formal hands loosen. Brian J. Bonislawsky of Astigmatic drew it in 2012 and kept it clean and casual, and he named it for how many jobs he thought it could do.
It sets narrow, which helps on a place card with a long surname. 1 Regular style, Latin with the extended accents. We would keep it to a few words at a time, wedding stationery and wine labels, at 24 px or larger.
Characters & Figures
368 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 365 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Quintessential
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 45 KB ↓- Version
- 1.000
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
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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/quintessential/quintessential.css">
body {
font-family: 'Quintessential', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Quintessential 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.