- Heading
- Jacquard 12
- Body text
- EB Garamond
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
Jacquard 12
About the font
Jacquard 12 is a free font by Sarah Cadigan-Fried, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 333 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 38% of the em and the capital height is 57%.
Jacquard 12 is a display font with support for the Latin script only. It has one style in weight 400 and is not a variable font. The font contains 357 glyphs. According to its source notes, it belongs to the Soft Type collection of typefaces made for knitting color-work and revives a Victorian needlepoint alphabet originally drawn in Berlin around 1880. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Sarah Cadigan-Fried
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
357
Character and uses
- Mood
- vintage
- rugged
- Design
- blackletter
- decorative
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Jacquard 12 has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 333 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
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- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Morisyen
- Kʼicheʼ
- Irish
- Latvian
…and 229 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Not included
- Numero sign — Not included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Not included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 331
- x-height
- 38% of the em
- Capital height
- 57% of the em
- Version
- 1.002; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Kerning
kern - Case-sensitive forms
case - Ordinals
ordn
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Jacquard+12
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Jacquard 12 font free to use?
Yes. Jacquard 12 is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Jacquard 12 support Cyrillic?
No, Jacquard 12 supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Jacquard 12 support?
Jacquard 12 covers 333 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Jacquard 12?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Jacquard 12?
Jacquard 12 was created by Sarah Cadigan-Fried.
What is Jacquard 12 good for?
Judging by its design, Jacquard 12 suits: cutting machines and crafts, tattoos, posters, logos.
Pairs well with Jacquard 12
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