Shadows Into Light
A light, quick hand with almost no pressure variation, of the kind that comes out of a fine felt tip held loosely. It has real lowercase, unlike the two marker faces beside it, and an x-height nearly as tall as its capitals, which is why it stays readable at sizes where most handwriting faces stop being words. The irregularity is genuine rather than applied: no two round letters share the same curve. It is the quietest handwriting in the archive, which is most of what it is for.
See Shadows Into Light in a paragraphCompare with Architects Daughter and Gloria Hallelujah
Shadows Into Light at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- No · 1 weight
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- Yes
- Italic
- No
Alphabets
Style
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Specification
- Designer
- Kimberly Geswein
- Released
- 2010
- Category
- Handwriting
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Annotations, Captions, Greetings cards, Quotations
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 352
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 30 KB
Shadows Into Light character map
Latin110
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
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Latin Extended179
Western European
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
Central and Eastern European
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ĉ
- ĉ
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- Ē
- ē
- Ĕ
- ĕ
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ĝ
- ĝ
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- Ĥ
- ĥ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ĩ
- ĩ
- ī
- Ĭ
- ĭ
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- Ĵ
- ĵ
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- Ŀ
- ŀ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- ʼn
- Ō
- ō
- Ŏ
- ŏ
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ŝ
- ŝ
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ţ
- ţ
- Ť
- Ŧ
- Ũ
- ũ
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- Ÿ
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
Romanian and other
- Ș
- ș
- ƒ
Türkçe14
- Ç
- ç
- Ğ
- ğ
- I
- ı
- İ
- i
- Ö
- ö
- Ş
- ş
- Ü
- ü
Use Shadows Into Light on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Shadows Into Light';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put shadows-into-light.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/shadows-into-light.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Shadows Into Light', cursive;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/shadows-into-light.css">body {
font-family: 'Shadows Into Light', cursive;
}Questions
- Is Shadows Into Light free for commercial use?
- Yes. Shadows Into Light 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 Shadows Into Light in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Shadows Into Light 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 Shadows Into Light?
- 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 Shadows Into Light support Turkish?
- Yes. Shadows Into Light includes the characters Türkçe 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.
- What languages does Shadows Into Light support?
- Shadows Into Light 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.
- Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Shadows Into Light?
- Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 18 KB against 23 KB for the complete file, 20% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.
- Where can I download Shadows Into Light as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is shadows-into-light.woff2, and it is about 23 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.
Shadows Into Light 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
- Taken unmodified from google/fonts
- The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
- This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026
Pairs well with Shadows Into Light
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Cite this page
Shadows Into Light font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/shadows-into-light (updated 2026-09-04)