Architects Daughter
The hand an architect labels a drawing in: upright, spaced out, and printed rather than joined, with the slight over-extension on the crossbars that comes from writing on a board. It is the one handwriting face here that belongs on a technical drawing rather than on a greetings card. Latin only, with no accented characters and no Turkish, which is the limit of what it was drawn for.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
Style
Specification
- Designer
- Kimberly Geswein
- Released
- 2010
- Category
- Handwriting
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Annotations, Diagrams and drawings, Captions, Quotations
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 352
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish
- Download size
- 26 KB
Size ladder
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Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Architects Daughter';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/architects-daughter.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Architects Daughter', cursive;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Architects Daughter free for commercial use?
- Yes. Architects Daughter is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Architects Daughter in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Architects Daughter belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Kimberly Geswein. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Architects Daughter?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.
- Does Architects Daughter support Turkish?
- Yes. Architects Daughter includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Architects Daughter support Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish?
- Yes. Architects Daughter covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 352 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.