Zelda

What is the Zelda font?

»ZELDA«, my new font family is named after Zelda Fitzgerald, the »Flapper« wife of »Tender is the Night« F. Scott Fitzgerald. They really lived it up at the French Riviera. Despite Scott making money in bundles, being the best paid writer of his time, they spent so much that they were always broke. But the really tragic thing is, Scott thought of himself as a failed writer, he never believed that he actually was »the writer« of his period. More…
Their time was the »Avant Garde« time, that is the French military term for »advance guard«, the ones who were always ahead of everybody else. This period at the beginning of the twentieth century did prepare the way for our modern times. Women especially ignored all conventional behaviour, cut their hair and skirts short, started to study all kinds of subjects that were until then reserved for males only. Those were the first days of women’s lib, we should thank the brave women of that time.
In literature, design and all the other arts a new time dawned and typefaces started to lose their serifs. In commemoration of those days I designed this collection that goes together well, can and should be mixed to your hearts desire.
In the »ZELDA-normal« packet are 610 glyphs, small-caps and all kinds of numbers, that are good for all latin writing languages. For good measure there are tabular numbers, old style numbers and the complete sets of nominators and denominators.
Since not everyone owns opentype savvy software I spread the glyphs over 6 single packets: Zelda-Normal (this is the basic font), Zelda-Capital-Ligatures, Zelda-High-Strung-Caps, Zelda-Narrow-Caps, Zelda-Narrow-Inline-Caps and Zelda-Small-Caps-Up! Enjoy!

Zelda Font families

The Zelda includes the following font families:

  • Zelda Thin
  • Zelda Extra Light
  • Zelda Light
  • Zelda Regular
  • Zelda Demi Bold
  • Zelda Bold
  • Zelda Extra Bold
  • Zelda Cap Ligatures Thin
  • Zelda Cap Ligatures Extra Light
  • Zelda Cap Ligatures Light
  • Zelda Cap Ligatures Regular
  • Zelda Cap Ligatures Demi Bold
  • Zelda Cap Ligatures Bold
  • Zelda Cap Ligatures Extra Bold
  • Zelda HighStrung Thin
  • Zelda HighStrung Extra Light
  • Zelda HighStrung Light
  • Zelda HighStrung Regular
  • Zelda HighStrung Demi Bold
  • Zelda HighStrung Bold
  • Zelda HighStrung Extra Bold
  • Zelda Narrow Thin
  • Zelda Narrow Extra Light
  • Zelda Narrow Light
  • Zelda Narrow Regular
  • Zelda Narrow Demi Bold
  • Zelda Narrow Bold
  • Zelda Narrow Extra Bold
  • Zelda SmallCaps Up Thin
  • Zelda SmallCaps Up Extra Light
  • Zelda SmallCaps Up Light
  • Zelda SmallCaps Up Regular
  • Zelda SmallCaps Up Demi Bold
  • Zelda SmallCaps Up Bold
  • Zelda SmallCaps Up Extra Bold
  • Zelda Narrow Inline ExtraLight
  • Zelda Narrow Inline Thin
  • Zelda Narrow Inline Light
  • Zelda Narrow Inline Regular
  • Zelda Narrow Inline DemiBold
  • Zelda-Narrow Inline Bold
  • Zelda Narrow Inline ExtraBold

Zelda Preview

Here is a preview of how Zelda will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


Is A free font? Is Free to Download?

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