styxtype - a libre font collection
Afacad Flux
The letters and numerals of Afacad Flux by Kristian Möller were meticulously crafted to harmonise with the architectural proportions and materials employed by Architect Sture Elmén during the 1940s.
Amstelvar
Amstelvar by David Berlow is inspired by the typeface designs used in The Netherlands and Belgium from the sixteenth century to the development of Times Roman in the 1930s. It has 12 variable axes.
Balans
Balans
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Basteleur
Designed with the Tarot de Marseille in mind, Basteleur by Keussel is a blend of medieval-ish and cooperblack-ish typeface. The Basteleur Arcana represents a lot of things a designer can experience: new beginnings, having fun, crafting, but also a lack of confidence and having hard time to finish projects.
«Beon»
Beon by Bastien Sozeau is a single-weight stencil typeface imitating neon tube signs.
Calistoga
since 1986
Calistoga by Yvonne Schuttler is a cheerful, space saving display typeface with vintage US railroad flavor. Calistoga includes proportional, tabular, old style and lining figures. It also offers fractions, superiors, inferiors, a broad range of symbols, and it includes case sensitive forms.
Cookie
Cookie
Cookie by Ania Kruk is a script typeface based on brush calligraphy. It has a little bit of 1950s style that makes you think about all the beautiful ads and pin-ups from this time. It is sweet and friendly - but not too decorative; simple and legible even in text sizes.
Cooper*
Cooper* by Owen Earl is a revival of a 1922 font family by Oswald Bruce Cooper. The original is most known for it's iconic Cooper Black font. This revival aims to shine some light on the more lightweight variants of the font.
Darumdrop One
Darumdrop is a flavorful handwritten font inspired by Japanese handwriting and "Daruma Otoshi" which is a Japanese folk craft game.
Departure Mono
Departure Mono by Helena Zhang is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.
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DT Nouveau by Death of Typography is an Art Nouveau inspired revival of a type specimen found in several issues of a local colonial-era publication, Straits Times Annual in the 1900s.
Edge Display
Edge Display by Grzegorz Samson is sans-serif typeface best suited for large text. It was inspired by music posters, band logos and concert art.
Expanded Herbertarian
A digitization and expansion of Davison Art Nouveau, used in covers for the Dune book series by purgruv.
Federo
Federo by Olexa Volochay is a display webfont that references Jakob Erbar's Feder Grotesk. The goal was to keep the typeface as close as possible to the original 1909 design while adapting it for crisp web typography.
Fraunces
Fraunces is a display, "Old Style" soft-serif typeface inspired by the mannerisms of early 20th century typefaces such as Windsor, Souvenir, and the Cooper Series.
Gensco
Gensco by Cédric Rossignol-Brunet, Gensco is a typeface created by scanning "De la nature" by Lucretia and and turning the scanned bitmaps into vector shapes. This gives it a gritty texture not found on most typefaces at the expense of a large filesize despite it's limited glyph selection.
Glacial Indifference
Glacial Indifference is a simple geometric typeface.
Gotico Antiqua Durandus
Gotico-Antiqua first used in Mainz by Peter Schoffer & Johann Fust for Guillaume Durand’s Rationale Divinorum Officorum in the XIV century.
Hyper Scrypt is a modern stencil typeface inspired by the stained glass technique used in the Metz cathedral. It borrows the stained glass method, drawing holes for the light with black lead. This creates a reverse typeface, where the shapes of the letters are drawn by their counters.
Jabin
Jabin by Frida Medrano was inspired by George Shelley's work on the cover "The Second Part of Natural Scripture" and in the Gutenberg Bible. Both designs have lowercase letters overly consistent (almost identical), and the uppercase letters have an exaggerated ornamentation, creating a great aesthetic contrast.
Jellee
Jellee is a rounded and soft sans serif typeface for posters, headlines, and titles. Great for cool and friendly animations.
Josefin Sans
Josefin Sans by Santiago Orozco is inspired by geometric sans serifs of the 1920 like Futura.
JugenD
Jugend is a display monospace family taking its roots in a lettering from the Jugendstil/Art-nouveau magazine of the same name, originally published in 1896. From these five letters a whole alphabet was extrapolated with alternates for a number of characters. Jugend 1896 has the same weight as the original lettering whereas Jugend 2021 is a lighter and sharper version.
Libertine Super
Libertine Super by the NoirBlancRouge foundry is a sans-serif with decorative lines, utilising OpenType features to give more control.
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Lilex is an extended font on top of IBM Plex Mono designed for developers. It contains ligatures, special characters (e.g. PowerLine), Greek and exists in a variable format.
Merriweather
Merriweather was designed to be a text face that is pleasant to read on screens. It features a very large x height, slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs and open forms.
Minipax
Minipax is a typeface inspired by George Orwell's 1984. It's been designed to fit with the atmosphere of the Orwellian dystopia. Although Minipax remains a rather transparent text typeface, many of its distinctive features have been crafted to reflect de dusty and gritty universe of the novel.
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Nyght Serif
Nyght Serif by Maksym Kobuzan is a contemporary serif with a spicy character. Its contrasting forms combine smooth and sharp curves, like blade serifs and spurs.
Ojuju
Ojuju is a reverse contrast variable typeface inspired by African Masquerades. The masks worn by the Dogon dancers from Mali inspired the aperture shaping, and counterform placement within many of the letterforms.
Ouroboros
Ouroboros is also a font for alchemists, witches, heretics, outsiders and curious people in general. It's inspired by early art-nouveau styles, which were sometimes used in relation with magical themes and symbolism, so it comes together with a set of alchemical and astronomical symbols.
outfit
Outfit is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed as the brand typeface for for brand automation company outfit.io by Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
Patriot
Patriot is a display sans serif typeface with a great quantity of distinctive features, from irregular crossbars to abrupt diagonal strokes. It also demonstrates its industrialist nature with a uniformity in weight, and no flourishes nor distinctions between thick and thin lines. Traces of Art Deco, Bauhaus and hints of Constructivism are preserved in the digital typeface, promising a progressive and influential voice when used in proper manners.
«Picaflor»
Picaflor by Ariel Martín Pérez is a hybrid display typeface with calligraphic details - French didone meet Spanish vernacular exhuberance.
Pizius
Pizius
Pizius by Mindaugas Gavrilovas is a display typeface inspired by Lithuanian mythology. It features rotated and slanted glyphs, making it look friendly and playful.
•Pouler•
Pouler by Alexandre Créquer is a distinctly French serif, evoking the feel of a warm inn serving ale.
PT Root UI
PT Root UI is a modern uniwidth sans serif whose individual character widths are constant across all weights. This is especially convenient for headers, menu bars and interface elements.
PT Root UI was designed by Vitaly Kuzmin and released by Paratype in 2018.
Roundo
Roundo is a geometric sans serif typeface, optimized for headlines and other on-screen display-sized text. Roundo's Latin-script character set is made up of top-heavy letters; this reverse contrast is particularly visible in Roundo's lowercase letters. The typeface's lowercase also sports a nice hybridization of geometric sans and humanistic sans design features.
RUBIK
Rubik is a sans serif font family with slightly rounded corners designed by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer. Rubik is a 5 weight family with Roman and Italic styles, that accompanies Rubik Mono One, a monospaced variation of the Black roman design.
Shantell Sans
Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.
•Sinistre•
Sinistre by Jules Durand (Cyrillic Support by Varya Goncharova) combines the Uncial minuscule, Roman proportions and subtle hints of Fraktur into soft letterforms and sharp terminations.
Space Grotesk
Space Grotesk is a proportional sans-serif typeface variant based on Colophon Foundry's fixed-width Space Mono family (2016). Originally designed by Florian Karsten in 2018, Space Grotesk retains the monospace's idiosyncratic details while optimizing for improved readability at non-display sizes.
SUSE
SUSE is a sans-serif typeface designed by René Bieder, embodying a unique hybrid between geometric and monospaced features. It was comissioned by the SUSE open-source software company to serve as their brand typeface.
Titan One
Titan One
Titan One by Rodrigo Fuenzalida is a really fat display type with a happy and cheerful personality. It takes most of its essence from hand lettering with big brushes. It is designed to be used mainly on headers and short texts.
Westgate
Westgate was designed based on the vernacular concrete typography on the North, East and West gates of Saigon's iconic Ben Thanh Market. The typeface carries an elegant condensed form inspired by the Art Deco style of the early 20th century French colonial era. It features elongated letter heights, combined with geometric lines and forms. The most charming feature is the Vietnamese diacritics which are harmoniously integrated into the letterforms, thus compensating for the typographic challenges of the Vietnamese language system while not compromising legibility.
xkcd-script
Derived from the handwriting of @randallmunroe, the author of xkcd. What you see in the comics is actually his handwriting!
Yeast
Yeast is a modern font with playful curves and a friendly look that adds warmth and approachability to your designs. The font is designed with smooth, flowing lines and rounded forms, creating a typographic experience that feels inviting and joyful.
Young Serif
Young Serif by the NoirBlancRouge foundry is a heavy weight old style serif typeface, taking inspiration from Plantin Infant or ITC Italian Old Style. The lowercase 'b' and 'f' feature rounded curves, adding a tender and generous quality to this font.
Zarathustra
Zarathustra by Lorène Picard is a revival of a typeface designed by Belgian painter Georges Lemmen at the beggining of the 20th century. It was specifically designed for the 1908 version of the Friedrich Nietzsche's book Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Zen Tokio Zoo
Zen Loop Family is one of three Latin fonts designed by Yoshimichi Ohira, as part of the Zen Fonts collection. Tokyo Zoo was originally designed for an animal exhibition. The stripes suggest zoo cages but overall it's a fun and stylish design.
ZinzinVf
A variable test font based on Cinzel and Cinzel Decorative. The swash axis gradually replaces the uppercase with swash glyphs and the lowercase with larger capitals.