Tangent font by Hamilton Wood Type Collection — the word TANGENT in white, sans-serif, and condensed letters, with a decorative black and orange initial cap H filled with stars above it, and the words BY PATRICK GRIFFIN and INSPIRED BY MORGANS & WILCOX below it.
Tangent font by Hamilton Wood Type Collection — a grid of white and gold sans-serif letters, numbers, and symbols, many with extended or nested strokes
Tangent font by Hamilton Wood Type Collection — the words “SQUIRREL NUT CARAMELS” in large, decorative, upright sans-serif letters with “PEANUTY & DELICIOUS” and “CHEWY & SWEET” in smaller letters, and a circle with “5¢ EACH” in the upper right.
Tangent font by Hamilton Wood Type Collection — the words ANDRÉ and BIG BOI in orange and gray sans serif letters with nesting and extended strokes, on a record album cover and label
Tangent font by Hamilton Wood Type Collection — the words “RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY” and “THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH” in red decorative sans-serif letters, with a border of stars and a faint star motif in the background
Tangent font by Hamilton Wood Type Collection — the words “SWASHES & ALTERNATES” in white sans-serif letters with a background of faint orange letters and numbers.

Tangent

From Hamilton Wood Type Collection

HWT Tangent, a modern font with a 200-year-old legacy, features nesting letters, numerous alternates, and double-Os. Inspired by the 1800s wood type Tangent from the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT, designer Patrick Griffin expanded it to over 500 glyphs, including ten alternates for the letter A. The font’s ascenders and descenders support smaller letters, allowing for creative spacing and versatility. The dynamism of Tangent lies in its unique letterforms and your skill in combining them.

Designed by Patrick Griffin

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  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Fula
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
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  • Embed fonts directly in a mobile app. Licensing is based on the number of app titles and covers distribution across platforms like iOS and Android, for apps with up to 25,000 monthly active users.

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Character Map
latin capital letter a U+0041
A

Uppercase Letter Latin

Uppercase Letter Greek

Lowercase Letter Latin

Modifier Letter

Other Letter Latin

Nonspacing Mark Inherited

Decimal Number

Other Number

Connector Punctuation

Dash Punctuation

Close Punctuation

Final Punctuation

Initial Punctuation

Other Punctuation

Open Punctuation

Currency Symbol

Modifier Symbol

Math Symbol

Other Symbol

Ligatures

Discretionary Ligatures

Stylistic Alternates

Swashes

Stylistic Set 1

Stylistic Set 2

Stylistic Set 3

Fractions

Ordinals

Scientific Inferiors

Superscript

Subscript

Numerators

Denominators

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