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Jacquard 24

Designed by Sarah Cadigan-Fried

About

Jacquard is an expanded revival typeface from a Victorian needlepoint alphabet designed in Berlin by Heinrich Kuehn circa 1880.

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 24 Charted.

To contribute, please see github.com/scfried/soft-type-jacquard.

Designer

Sarah Cadigan-Fried (b. 1990) hails from Roanoke, Virginia. She obtained her MFA in Graphic Design from Boston University in 2019, and received a certificate in Type Design from Type@Cooper in 2022. She is currently living and working in Boston, Massachusetts where she is an Assistant Professor in Northeastern University's department of Art + Design. With a passion for fiber arts, Sarah is always looking for new and better ways to integrate typography into her knitting.

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Choosing type

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.

Jacquard 24 - Google Fonts