What is the Catalina font?
Earlier this year I visited a bakery in Newport Beach, CA and fell in love with the organic design and typography of the place. Hand-drawn menus, table cards, chalkboards, and wall quotes surrounded the charming spot. It inspired me to create a new font family based on the combination of hand drawn fonts. Included in this package are 5 font families, with 2 graphic ornament fonts. Each font family contains at least a light, medium and bold.
Here is a breakdown of what’s cookin’ at Catalina’s Bakery: More…
Catalina Anacapa: Tall and skinny, this font comes in 3 weights for both sans and slab serif styles. It includes contextual alternatives (giving 3 versions of each letter), stylistic alternatives for select letters (A, K, P, Q, R, Y) and also includes Small Caps.
Catalina Avalon: Based off Anacapa, this sub family has a high contrasting line weight. It comes in light, regular and bold as well as an inline alternative for both sans and slab serif styles. Avalon also includes opentype features such as contextual alternatives (giving 3 versions of each letter), stylistic alternatives for select letters (A, K, P, Q, R, Y) and small caps for each letter.
Catalina Clemente: In a more standard width, Clemente is one of the two sub families that can be used for paragraph text as well as headlines. It’s organically geometric in style and comes in ALL CAPS and lowercase, includes upright and custom italics, and has the opentype feature giving 3 versions of each letter.
Catalina Script: A great compliment with the display sub-families, Catalina Script rounds out the package with a hand-drawn cursive flair. It includes contextual alternatives (giving 2 variations to each letter) as well as stylistic alternatives for many of the capital and lowercase letters. It has special ligatures for some letter combinations, and titling alternatives for all the capital letters.
Catalina Typewriter: The second of the paragraph text sub-families, this typewriter inspired hand-drawn font family works great as either a display or paragraph text. It has contextual alternatives with 3 versions of each letter, and comes in both upright and custom italics versions.
Catalina Extras! These two fonts go perfectly with the Catalina Family. They includes borders, frames, arrows, banners, flourishes and more. Catalina Flourish has all of it’s options in a light and bold style, to use the light version type all lowercase letters, then to make something bold, used it’s uppercase (or shift+) characters. For a breakdown of graphic/letter correlation, see the breakdown PDF.
All of Catalina was drawn by the same hand, using the same ink and technique. While they contrast in their type styles, they work together perfectly to create one cohesive font family.
Catalina Font families
The Catalina includes the following font families:
- Catalina Anacapa Sans Light
- Catalina Anacapa Sans
- Catalina Anacapa Sans Bold
- Catalina Anacapa Slab Light
- Catalina Anacapa Slab
- Catalina Anacapa Slab Bold
- Catalina Avalon Sans Light
- Catalina Avalon Sans
- Catalina Avalon Sans Bold
- Catalina Avalon Sans Inline
- Catalina Avalon Slab Light
- Catalina Avalon Slab
- Catalina Avalon Slab Bold
- Catalina Avalon Slab Inline
- Catalina Clemente Light
- Catalina Clemente Light Italic
- Catalina Clemente
- Catalina Clemente Italic
- Catalina Clemente Bold
- Catalina Clemente Bold Italic
- Catalina Script Light
- Catalina Script Light Italic
- Catalina Script
- Catalina Script Italic
- Catalina Script Bold
- Catalina Script Bold Italic
- Catalina Typewriter Light
- Catalina Typewriter Light Italic
- Catalina Typewriter
- Catalina Typewriter Italic
- Catalina Typewriter Bold
- Catalina Typewriter Bold Italic
- Catalina Flourish
- Catalina Extras
Catalina Preview
Here is a preview of how Catalina will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
