Briem Hand

Font Technology

Variable Font with 1 axis
Weight (wght): 100–900

How To Use Briem Hand

To use Briem Hand in your web project, either search Google Fonts and use their embed code or host the font on your server and use the CSS below. Note: fonts served by Google Fonts may be missing some OpenType features that are available in the original font.
Download Briem Hand
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Briem Hand';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>BriemHand[wght].ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-stretch: 100%;
  font-style: normal;
}

Description

Briem Hand is elegant while also being quite accessible and very legible. It is direct and sincere without being excessively sentimental. It provides a range of weights, and comes with and without guides and joins. Briem Hand is an extended version of Gunnlaugur's 'Briem Script' which was designed in 1992. The Briem Hand is a modern adaptation of sixteenth-century chancery cursive. Briem Hand includes Latin Vietnamese, all Western, Central, and South-Eastern European languages, Sami, South American and nearly all African language support, as well as several OpenType features (old-style and tabular figures, superscript and subscript numerals, fractions, stylistic alternates). To contribute, see github.com/SorkinType/Briem-Hand .

Designer

Gunnlaugur SE Briem, Eben Sorkin

Copyright

Copyright 2019 The Briem Hand Project Authors (https://github.com/SorkinType/Briem-Hand)

OpenType Features

Contextual alternates
Case-sensitive Forms
Discretionary ligatures
Fractions
Standard ligatures
Lining figures
Oldstyle figures
Ordinals
Proportional numbers
Subscript
Superscript
Tabular numbers
Slashed Zero
Briem Hand regular
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
, : ; ? ! " “ ” ' ‘ ’ « » ′ ″ ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 - – — ‒ ― / | ⁄ … • · § ¶ * ~ ^ ° © ® ™
Numerals
lining-nums;
oldstyle-nums
tabular-nums
proportional-nums
0123456789 0123456789
0123456789 0123456789
0123456789 0123456789
0123456789 0123456789
Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
fi
fi
fl
fl
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
/
/
0
0
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ff
ff
fi
fi
fl
fl
Ordinals
default css
font-feature-settings: "ordn" 1
No.
No.
1a
1a
2o
2o
Tabular numbers
default css
font-feature-settings: "tnum" 1
0
0
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0