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ArrowType

ArrowType is a type foundry and studio practice based in Brooklyn, NY. It specializes in custom type, type design, and font development. ArrowType is the one-person studio of Stephen Nixon, but it occasionally pulls in collaborators to make bigger projects happen.
ArrowType crafts fonts that are useful, beautiful, and deeply personal expressions of timeless ideas. With each project, they seek to push the technical and æsthetic boundaries of typography while also delivering fonts that are fun and productive to use.
ArrowType has made two major open-source font releases: Recursive, commissioned by Google Fonts, and Shantell Sans, commissioned by Shantell Martin. ArrowType has also made several type families for commercial licensing, largely inspired by historical lettering found around NYC. Each of these projects is a variable-first font family, created not as revivals but as brand-new type families, built for the visual and technical landscape of today and tomorrow.

Open source details

Shantell Sans is available via an open source license. You're free to use it with your Adobe Fonts account just as you would any other font in the Adobe Fonts library. For information regarding other uses of Shantell Sans, see copyright and license details for Shantell Sans Bouncy Light, Shantell Sans Bouncy Light Italic, Shantell Sans Bouncy Regular, Shantell Sans Bouncy Italic, Shantell Sans Bouncy Medium, Shantell Sans Bouncy Medium Italic, Shantell Sans Bouncy SemiBold, Shantell Sans Bouncy SemiBold Italic, Shantell Sans Bouncy Bold, Shantell Sans Bouncy Bold Italic, Shantell Sans Bouncy ExtraBold, Shantell Sans Bouncy ExtraBold Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Light, Shantell Sans Informal Light Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Regular, Shantell Sans Informal Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Medium, Shantell Sans Informal Medium Italic, Shantell Sans Informal SemiBold, Shantell Sans Informal SemiBold Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Bold, Shantell Sans Informal Bold Italic, Shantell Sans Informal ExtraBold, Shantell Sans Informal ExtraBold Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Light, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Light Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Regular, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Medium, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Medium Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy SemiBold, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy SemiBold Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Bold, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy Bold Italic, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy ExtraBold, Shantell Sans Informal Bouncy ExtraBold Italic, Shantell Sans Normal Light, Shantell Sans Normal Light Italic, Shantell Sans Normal Regular, Shantell Sans Normal Italic, Shantell Sans Normal Medium, Shantell Sans Normal Medium Italic, Shantell Sans Normal SemiBold, Shantell Sans Normal SemiBold Italic, Shantell Sans Normal Bold, Shantell Sans Normal Bold Italic, Shantell Sans Normal ExtraBold, and Shantell Sans Normal ExtraBold Italic.

Licensing Information
The full Adobe Fonts library is cleared for both personal and commercial use.

As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for:

Design Projects

Create images or vector artwork, including logos

Website Publishing

Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website

PDFs

Embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing

Video and Broadcast

Use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content

And more…

Visit the Adobe Fonts Licensing  FAQ for full details

Visit ArrowType to purchase additional licensing and services, including:
Mobile Apps: Embed fonts in your app UI
Self Hosting: Host web font files on your own server
Custom Services: Request modifications or bespoke fonts directly from the foundry
Volume licensing: Use the fonts across your whole organization
Select font style

How to Use

You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.

Desktop

In application font menus, this font will display:

{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}

Web

To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:


font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
        

Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters

Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.