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Shantell Sans

Designed By

Shantell Martin, Arrow Type, Anya Danilova

12 Styles Display

The evening
edition.

Shantell Sans · Regular

Try a short headline and compare the letterforms at a larger scale.

12 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

Download Shantell Sans ↓

TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Draw first, spell later

A Headline In Place

Shantell Sans · Regular

A poster setting with supporting text.

Theatre / Music / Conversation

An Evening
In Good
Company.

Friday · 7:30 pm
The Assembly Rooms

12 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Light300

Draw first, spell later

Light Italic300

Draw first, spell later

Regular400

Draw first, spell later

Italic400

Draw first, spell later

Medium500

Draw first, spell later

Medium Italic500

Draw first, spell later

Semi Bold600

Draw first, spell later

Semi Bold Italic600

Draw first, spell later

Bold700

Draw first, spell later

Bold Italic700

Draw first, spell later

Extra Bold800

Draw first, spell later

Extra Bold Italic800

Draw first, spell later

As a schoolgirl Shantell Martin dreaded spelling tests. Out of school, words were something else for her, a way to make art and let off feeling, and in her early 20s she found out why reading and writing had always been so hard. She went on to become a British visual artist known for drawing with words, in the Oculus at the World Trade Center, across the screens of Times Square, on the Lincoln Center stage where the New York City Ballet performs, and in a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar at Art Basel in Miami.

The font grows out of her lettering. She made it with Stephen Nixon of Arrow Type and with Anya Danilova, hoping to get other people to have fun with writing.

The family on this page has 12 styles: Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold and Extra Bold, each with an italic. Latin, Vietnamese and Cyrillic are covered. There are 4 stylistic sets and contextual alternates, and tabular figures, fractions and a slashed zero sit underneath for anyone who wants it in a product.

We like the Medium for a picture book or a menu board. In small interface text the wobbly strokes start to look fussy, so keep it for the bigger lines.

Shantell Sans type specimen with letters and figures
Shantell Sans · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

837 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Shantell Sans

12 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 2.0 MB ↓
Version
1.011
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Read The Font License ↗

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/shantell-sans-3/shantell-sans-3.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Shantell Sans', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Shantell Sans 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.