Edu NSW ACT Foundation

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handwriting

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Variable axes

Font size

wght: Weight

Character count: 127
Glyph count: 194
File size: 55kb
Designers: Tina Anderson Corey Anderson
License: OFL 1.1

Description

The Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools collection is a set of handwriting fonts designed specifically to meet Australian Education standards. While weights, widths and optical sizes were carefully crafted to work well in an Australian classroom environment, they are just as comfortable to read and work with in the home environment.

Each Australian state teaches different handwriting styles in lower primary school (although some states do share the same style). There are essentially three stages involved with each state's styles:

The NSW ACT School Fonts include both:

Google Workspace users are provided standard versions online, however they may download or build the complete OpenType versions from GitHub for local installations. To download the full version, or to contribute, see github.com/MezMerrit/AU-School-Handwriting-Fonts.

Glyph script breakdown

Zyyy

58%

Latn

41%

Other

0.8%

Average glyph size

average height and narrower

average size(all fonts)

average size(this font)

73%

102%

Font fallback

CSS


    @font-face {
    
      
        font-family:EduNSWACTFoundation-fallback;
      
      
        
          src:
        
        
          local("Times New Roman"),
        

        
          local("TimesNewRomanPSMT"),
        

        
          local("Times New Roman.ttf");
        
      
      
        
          size-adjust:
        
        
          84.86%;
        
      

      
        
          ascent-override:
        
        
          119.73%;
        
      

      
        
          descent-override:
        
        
          28.75%;
        
      

      
        
          line-gap-override:
        
        
          0.0%;
        
      
    
    }

    .edu_nsw_act_foundation {
    
      
          font-family:
        
      "Edu NSW ACT Foundation", 
      "EduNSWACTFoundation-fallback", 
      serif; 
    
    }

Without adjustment

mox vomer proin

With adjustment

mox vomer proin

Font metrics

Units per em: 1000
X Height: 416
Cap Height: 772

Ascent: 1016
Descent: -244
Line Gap: 0

Font files/variations

EduNSWACTFoundation[wght]

roman

variable

127 characters

55kb

EduNSWACTFoundation-Regular

roman

400

127 characters

33kb

Variable font axes

wght Weight Adjust the style from lighter to bolder in typographic color, by varying stroke weights, spacing and kerning, and other aspects of the type. This typically changes overall width, and so may be used in conjunction with Width and Grade axes.

Thin

100

ExtraLight

200

Light

300

Regular

400

Medium

500

SemiBold

600

Bold

700

ExtraBold

800

Black

900

General

400

1,000

This font

400

700