Asteristico

Name: Asteristico
Author: Jonathan William Petroski

Asteristico captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Jonathan William Petroski54% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Asteristico

Best Font Pairings for Asteristico

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Asteristico, including combinations with Hyde, Hanken Grotesk 2020 and Bagnard Sans.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Asteristico with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Character Set

Asteristico Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Asteristico Used As Body Text

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Asteristico, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Asteristico demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Asteristico for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Asteristico small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Asteristico delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Asteristico italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Asteristico bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Asteristico typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Asteristico typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Asteristico'; }

Quick Start

Adding Asteristico to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Asteristico:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Asteristico:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Asteristico';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Asteristico:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Asteristico

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Asteristico', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Asteristico', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'asteristico': ['Asteristico', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-asteristico">Your text here</p>

About

The Design of Asteristico

Jonathan William Petroski

Handwriting

Open Source

Asteristico font is a handwriting typeface with casual lettering letterforms that mark with asterisk, notation personality. Each character displays asterisk-influenced shapes with emphasis character suggesting important notes and special markings. This casual lettering style suits notation content, emphasis branding, and designs requiring typography with notable, marked character. The asterisk reference emphasizes marking importance. For designers creating notation content, Asteristico delivers appropriate emphasis character. Complements notation palettes.

Asteristico comes from the work of Jonathan William Petroski. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Asteristico features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for personal branding and lifestyle blogs.

Asteristico is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Asteristico

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Best Ways to Use Asteristico

Best Font Pairings for Asteristico

Test Asteristico Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Asteristico Used As Body Text

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

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Inclusive Design

Using Asteristico Accessibly

Asteristico Legibility Characteristics

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Asteristico's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Asteristico Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Asteristico: Best Practices

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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