Trantor Hand
The capitals of the Foundation title sequence, with a lowercase for everyday UK English.
Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Empire.
A naïve café on Terminus charges £4.50 for crème brûlée.
Character set
Stylistic set 1: the dotted o and crossed w of the title sequence
Default
Foundation & Empire, now
ss01
Foundation & Empire, now
Regular 400, 20px
The colour of the sky over Terminus was grey, and the Encyclopaedia’s café served a naïve crème brûlée for £4.50. Organise, analyse, recognise — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
SemiBold 600, 20px
The colour of the sky over Terminus was grey, and the Encyclopaedia’s café served a naïve crème brûlée for £4.50. Organise, analyse, recognise — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
About
Trantor Hand builds on Foundation Titles Hand v0.85, a hand-drawn font based on the title credits of the Apple TV+ series Foundation. The original has capitals, figures and punctuation; its lowercase was a copy of the capitals. Trantor Hand adds:
- a new lowercase a–z, drawn in the same rounded, single-weight style as the capitals, in Regular and SemiBold;
- accented letters for UK English loanwords such as café, naïve, rôle, façade and señor;
- £, €, …, •, ° and a no-break space;
- kerning for the lowercase;
- an optional stylistic set (
ss01) with the dotted o and crossed w of the title-sequence capitals.
Use it for titles, headings and short passages of text.
Using the fonts
On the web
Self-host the webfonts/ folder from the download and include its stylesheet, or load it from jsDelivr pinned to a release:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/fonts/trantor-hand.css">
<!-- or -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/desholmes/trantor-type@v1.0.0/fonts/hand/webfonts/trantor-hand.css">body { font-family: "Trantor Hand", sans-serif; } /* Regular, 400 */
strong, h1, h2 { font-weight: 600; } /* SemiBold */
.titles { font-feature-settings: "ss01"; } /* dotted o, crossed w */To speed up the first paint, preload the WOFF2 you use above the fold: <link rel="preload" href="/fonts/TrantorHand-Regular.woff2" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin>.
On the desktop
Install the TTFs from the download's ttf/ folder (double-click on macOS, right-click → Install on Windows). In design apps the dotted o and crossed w appear as stylistic set 1.
Downloads
| Everything | TrantorHand.zip (TTF, WOFF2, WOFF, CSS, licence) |
| Webfonts | Regular WOFF2 · SemiBold WOFF2 · CSS |
| Desktop | Regular TTF · SemiBold TTF |
| Licence | SIL Open Font License 1.1 · Font log |
Licence and credits
Capitals, figures and punctuation © 2021 Roger Sperberg. Lowercase and Latin-1 additions © 2026 Codecup Ltd. Released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: free to use, embed and modify, but not to sell on its own. Include the licence when you redistribute the fonts.
The original licence reserves the name “FoundationTitlesHand”, so this modified version is published as Trantor Hand. Foundation is an Apple TV+ series; these fan-made fonts aren't affiliated with or endorsed by Apple, Skydance or the Asimov estate.