Christ Trek fonts

What you'll find here

Most of these typefaces have a large Unicode repertoire outside the basic Latin range, including Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, math symbols, dingbats, and emoticons.

Unicode should have a triquetra. Don't you agree? ☺ Several of these designs have one at U+E002.

Blackletter / Display / Fantasy

• Abibas 🗽 — 🆙 04 Oct 2015
• Hananiah 🗽 — 🆙 09 Apr 2014
• Horta 🗽 — 🆙 05 Jun 2016
• Looks Like S'pht 🗽 — 🆙 27 Nov 2013
• Marapfhont 🗽 — 🆙 16 Jan 2014

Dingbat

• Politics As Usual 🗽 — 🆙 [an error occurred while processing this directive]

Sans-serif / Gothic

• Montagel 🗽
• Squarish Sans 🗽 — 🆙 22 Sep 2011

Serif

• Brampton 🗽 — 🆙 25 Mar 2014
• Messenger

Updates and contributions

• Clark Riley's Cairo, Unicodified 🆓 — 🆙 11 Feb 2014
• Robin Casady's ChicagoFLF, Unicodified 🆓 — 🆙 13 Feb 2014
• Courier Prime 🗽 by Alan Dague-Greene is the typewriter face
• EB Garamond🔗 🗽 by Georg Duffner is an old-style serif

Most of these are available for use as webfonts courtesy of the Open Font Library. My most popular design is Horta, which probably goes to show how many other Trekkers there are!

Fonts you may like

The following designs are others' creations that I find useful or unique in some way. If you're looking for something different from your system's defaults, these are worth a look. Most of these faces are free.

Blackletter

Blackletter faces don't get much use, but they're interesting!

• Gamaliel 🗽 by Rafael Ferran

Fraktur

• Astloch 🗽 by Dan Rhatigan is monolinear
• Blankenburg 🗽 by Peter Wiegel
• Dampfplatz 🗽 by Paul Lloyd
• The Germanica family 🗽 by Paul Lloyd has Embossed, Fluted, and Shadowed variants
• Gryffensee by Christian Thalmann
• UnifrakturMaguntia 🗽 by J. Mach Wust

Rotunda

• Rotunda 🗽 by George Williams
• Rotunda Pommerania 🗽 by Peter Wiegel

Textur

• The Black family 🗽 by Paul Lloyd has Embossed, Incised, and Shadowed variants in two widths
• Cantebriggia 🗽 by Paul Lloyd
• Hefeweizen from David Thometz Design is geometrically constructed
• Liverpool 🆓 by Rebecca Bettencourt
• Pirata One 🗽 by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Nicolas Massi

Cursive / Hand / Script

So many to choose from!

• Aguafina Script 🗽 by Angel Koziupa and Alejandro Paul
• Alex Brush 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke is a light, flowing brush script
• Allura 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke
• American Scribe by Brian Willson, Declaration Script from P22, National Archive by Harold Lohner, and US Declaration 🆓 by Tomasz Skowroński are based on the penmanship of Timothy Matlack
• Arizonia 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke
• Bad Script 🗽 by Roman Shchyukin
• Cookie 🗽 by Ania Kruk is a brush script that's friendly but not too decorative
• Damion 🗽 by Vernon Adams is a casual script
• Dancing Script 🗽 by Pablo Impallari is an informal script, friendly and spontaneous
• Dynalight 🗽 by Brian J. Bonislawsky is a dynamic, connected script
• Eagle Lake 🗽 by Astigmatic
• Engagement 🗽 by Brian J. Bonislawsky is a semi-formal upright brush script
• Euphoria Script 🗽 by Sabrina Mariela Lopez is an informal unconnected script
• Great Vibes 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke is a flowing connected script
• Herr Von Muellerhoff 🗽 by Alejandro Paul
• Italianno 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke is an elegant, calligraphic script
• Love and Passion 🆓 by Jellyka Nerevan is a girly script with a ♡ motif
• Macondo 🗽 by John Vargan Beltrán is a print font with a Colombian flair
• Marck Script 🗽 by Denis Masharov and Marck Fogel resembles informal, unconnected felt pen writing
• Merienda One 🗽 by Eduardo Tunni is soft, unconnected, upright, and brush-like
• Miss Fajardose 🗽 by Alejandro Paul
• Monsieur La Doulaise 🗽 by Alejandro Paul
• Montez 🗽 by Brian J. Bonislawsky recalls 1960s beauty products, somewhat elegant
• Mr Bedfort 🗽 by Alejandro Paul
• Mr De Haviland 🗽 by Alejandro Paul
• Mrs Saint Delafield 🗽 by Alejandro Paul
• Norican 🗽 by Vernon Adams
• Ovidius from FontHaus and Ovidius Script from GroupType are the same quill-on-parchment font by Thaddeus Szumilas
• Pacifico 🗽 by Vernon Adams is a bold brush script
• Parisienne 🗽 by Brian J. Bonislawsky is a light, casual, connected script with a bit of bounce and intentional irregularity
• Pecita 🗽 by Philippe Cochy is a connected handwriting script with a large repertoire
• Pinyon Script 🗽 by Nicole Fally is a romantic round hand script with high slant and contrast
• Playball 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke
• Qwigley 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke is a very stylized, calligraphic, brush script
• Rancho 🗽 by David Cohen and Stuart Sandler
• Rebecca by Harold Lohner
• Rochester 🗽 by Gillian Fisher is upright and connected, with a casual elegance
• Rouge Script 🗽 by Sabrina Mariela Lopez is a formal script redrawn with brush-like features to make it casual
• Ruthie 🗽💰 by Rob Leuschke is a stylized calligraphic font
• Sarina 🗽 by James Grieshaber is a heavy, squat brush script with medium contrast
• Satisfy 🗽 by David Cohen and Stuart Sandler is a brush with a little pizzazz
• Sonsie One 🗽 by Riccardo De Franceschi
• Tangerine 🗽 by Toshi Omagari is a graceful calligraphic font
• Veggieburger 🆓 by Robby Woodard is what you should use whenever you feel tempted to use Comic Sans, because Comic Sans is quite possibly the worst font ever
• Vibur 🗽 by Johan Kallas
• Vivaldi by Friedrich Peter
• Xiomara 🆓 by Lauren Thompson is a curly but legible upright script with large repertoire
• Yellowtail 🗽 by Brian J. Bonislawsky
• Yesteryear 🗽 by Brian J. Bonislawsky
• Zapfino by Hermann Zapf is amazing; Mac users are so lucky

Decorative / Display / Fantasy

Display faces don't see much usage either, but they are fun! Mostly useful just for titling, but a few could be used for body text as well.

• One variant of American Patriot 🆓 by M.G. Adkins and James Stirling is my favorite patriotic font
• Arima Koshi 🗽 by Correia and Gama is soft, friendly, and legible
• Autour One 🗽 by Eben Sorkin
• Fascinate Inline 🗽 by Astigmatic
• Final Frontier Old Style 🆓 by Allen R. Walden, Horizon BT from Bitstream, Roddenberry 🆓 by Neale Davidson, and Trek Classic Credits are going to be favorites of any trekker, and inspired Horta
• Germania One 🗽 by John Vargas Beltrán is a blend of fraktur and geometric sans
• Goudy Medieval 🆓 by Lisa Wade has a semi-lombardic feel to it, I think, and lends a Middle Age look while remaining legible
• Harrington by Sam Wang is based on 19th-century art nouveau
• Modak 🗽 by Sarang Kulkarni, Maithili Shingre, and Noopur Datye is chunky and funky
• Oldenburg 🗽 by Nicole Fally

Simulation

• Bagel by Per Jørgensen
• Faux Hebrew by Roger Vershen
• Maiandra by Dennis Pasternak
• Talmud by Tomi Haaparanta

Sans-serif / Gothic

• Capriola 🗽 by Viktoriya Grabowska
• David Berlow's Charcoal has a place in my heart from long association with Macs, and Virtue 🆓 by Marty P. Pfeiffer is a Charcoal lookalike, nice for Mac users who have to use other systems
• Chicago by Susan Kare is even more retro than Charcoal, and lives on today via Krungthep
• Delicious 🆓 by Jos Buivenga has the interesting quality that making it bolder doesn't change line length
• Eurostile by Aldo Novarese is a classic but many early digital versions get it wrong — Eurostile Next by Akira Kobayashi is probably a more faithful rendition of the original
• Helvetica, because Arial is 💩
• Susan Kare's Monaco is one of the best programmer's fonts ever made, IMHO
• With many ligatures, stylistic sets, and an impressive repertoire of characters, Pragmata Pro from Fabrizio Shiavi is an amazing tour de force in monospace design

Serif

• Brian Willson's Broadsheet captures colonial-era American type really well
• Copper Penny 🆓 from The Fontry is a cut of Copperplate Gothic with a lowercase
• Courier Prime 🗽 by Alan Dague-Greene
• Franklin Caslon from P22 was based on the type from Ben Franklin's print shop, looking distressed with age
• Wyld 🆓 by David Manthey is another version of that 18th century classic, Caslon
• YoungSerif 🗽 by Bastien Sozoo