The Library
The Register's own typeface, drawn from scratch for these pages. It sets the masthead, every title and heading, the lettering on the seal and the cards a page makes when it is shared. Everything below is live type, in the fonts the site serves.
Regular
Register
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
Bold
Register
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
Italic
Register
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
The Kingdom of Prussia
Alexander I, German Emperor
The Olive Branch
The Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
a f g a f g
The Italic is drawn, not slanted by the browser. Its a and g have a single storey, its f runs below the line, and its serifs lead in and out of the stroke as a pen does.
Anno Domini 1648
Small capitals are cut at their own size with the full stroke, so they sit with the lowercase without looking pale. Old-style figures rise and fall like letters: 0123456789.
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The Latin alphabets of most of Europe: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, the Nordic languages, Polish, Czech and Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, the Baltic languages, Croatian and Welsh, in 321 characters to each style. Greek and Cyrillic are not drawn.
“Quoted” „Low“ «Guillemets» ¡Hola! ¿Qué? § ¶ † ‡ • · … £ $ € ¥ ¢ % @ # * + − = × ÷ ± ° © ® ™
The rules join into a continuous line however many are set, single or double, like the gilt rules of the masthead.
Each letter is drawn as the centre-line of its strokes and given one even weight, in the manner of engraved lettering, with flared wedge serifs, spurs on the arms of E, F, L, T and Z, and rounds cut a little square. The Bold is the same drawing with a heavier stroke and a little more room; the small capitals and old-style figures are the same drawings at other sizes, keeping the stroke. The script that draws it is in the Register's repository, at tools/brand/register-type/build.py.
For installing on a computer, to set the Register's lettering in other work.
