Vast Shadow

Nicole Fally · 2011 · OFL-1.1

A slab serif with a hard drop shadow drawn into the letterforms rather than applied over them, which is why it stays crisp at any size instead of blurring the way a CSS shadow does. The shadow is built as a counter, so it takes the colour of whatever sits behind it: white type on black gives a black shadow and works exactly as well as the other way round, which is not true of most shadowed faces. One weight, and it is a poster face.

See Vast Shadow in a paragraphCompare with Alfa Slab One and Bevan

Vast Shadow 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)
No
Italic
No

Alphabets

Style

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

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
Nicole Fally
Released
2011
Category
Display
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Titles, Posters, Logotypes, Packaging
Weights
400
Styles
Normal
Variable
No
Glyphs
235
Languages
Latin
Download size
34 KB
Source
github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/vastshadow

Vast Shadow character map

230 characters in the complete font. Grouped by the alphabets it covers — every cell is a character the file really contains.

Latin108

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 Vast Shadow on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin. The file is vast-shadow.woff2, the same one the WOFF2 button above gives you.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Vast Shadow';
  /* Take the WOFF2 button above, put vast-shadow.woff2 wherever
     you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
  src: url('/fonts/vast-shadow.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Vast Shadow', sans-serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/vast-shadow.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Vast Shadow', sans-serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly.

Questions

Is Vast Shadow free for commercial use?
Yes. Vast Shadow 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 Vast Shadow in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Vast Shadow belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Nicole Fally. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install Vast Shadow?
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 Vast Shadow support Turkish?
No. Vast Shadow covers Latin, but not the extra characters Türkçe needs — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ and ş. Text set in it would come out with missing or wrong letters.
What languages does Vast Shadow support?
Vast Shadow covers Latin, across 235 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
Where can I download Vast Shadow as WOFF2?
From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is vast-shadow.woff2, and it is about 25 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.

Vast Shadow 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

Designed by Nicole Fally

Copyright (c) 2010 by Sorkin Type Co (eben@eyebytes.com) with Reserved Font Name Vast and Vast Shadow. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

  • 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

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Cite this page

Vast Shadow font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/vast-shadow (updated 2026-09-04)

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