Swordfish is an all-caps geometric sans for display, branding and titling. Inspiration for its design came from 1920s and 30s avant-garde typefaces and jazz record covers of the 40s and 50s.
Swordfish unites two 20th-century typeface trends: geometric letterforms of varied proportions and ‘jumping baselines’, typical of early jazz album covers.
CAST is a type foundry set up as a cooperative in 2014. So far we’ve released 18 types, including Sole Serif and Sole Sans (EDA Silver 2019), plus other custom faces. In 2016 we launched Cast it, an occasional publication to showcase our typefaces. Since 2017 we’ve been running CAST Articles – The science of type, its history and culture on our website.
As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for:
Design Projects
Create images or vector artwork, including logos
Website Publishing
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PDFs
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Video and Broadcast
Use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content
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.