Jacquard 12 Font
by Sarah Cadigan-Fried · Display · 1 style · OFL · free for commercial use
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About Jacquard 12
Jacquard is an expanded revival typeface from a Victorian needlepoint alphabet designed in Berlin by Heinrich Kuehn circa 1880.
The Soft Type is a collection of typefaces designed for knitting color-work.
Designing typefaces for knitting is essentially the same as creating pixel types. However, in practice, the pixel size is determined by the properties of the yarn in use. Scale is determined by the weight of the yarn as well as the number of pixels that make up the height of each letter. In this collection, the number following the typeface's name indicates the height of the capital letters for that typeface.
These typefaces were designed with machine knitting in mind, but could be used for hand knitting, needlework, bedazzling, or many other textile crafts.
Note: For Fair Isle knitting, you need to beware of floats and plan accordingly, as always.
Each typeface has a “Regular” and “Charted” version, and some include multiple scales so you can fit type on your knits, no matter the project's size. Check out the charted version Jacquard 12 Charted.
To contribute, please see github.com/scfried/soft-type-jacquard.
License & usage
Jacquard 12 is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it for free in personal and commercial projects: logos, websites, apps, videos, print and products. You may embed it and modify it; the font files themselves may not be sold on their own.
To use it on a website, add the files with @font-face and set font-family: 'Jacquard 12', sans-serif;
View the full license text (also included in the ZIP).
