Jacquarda Bastarda 9
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/jacquarda-bastarda-9 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Jacquarda Bastarda 9", system-ui;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
The Soft Type Collection is designed for knitters to chart out their typographic projects. Jacquarda Bastarda is an expanded revival typeface from a bastarda-esque Victorian needlepoint alphabet designed in Berlin by Heinrich Kuehn circa 1880.
Each typeface has a “Regular” and “Charted” version, and some include multiple scales so you can fit type on your knits, no matter the project's size. Check out the charted version Jacquarda Bastarda 9 Charted.
In this collection, the number following the typeface's name indicates the height of the capital letters for that typeface.
To contribute, see github.com/scfried/soft-type-jacquarda-bastarda.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/jacquarda-bastarda-9 Designed by
Sarah Cadigan-Fried
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License
OFL-1.1