Fraunces

Undercase · Phaedra Charles, Flavia Zimbardi · 2020

serifsoft-serif display, wonky/variableitalic

An open-source variable soft-serif inspired by early-20th-century display faces, with weight, softness, wonk and optical-size axes.

About

Fraunces takes its mannerisms from Windsor, Souvenir and the Cooper series, then rebuilds them as a four-axis variable font covering weight, softness, optical size and a dedicated wonk axis for its more eccentric, hand-inflected details. Commissioned by Google Fonts and released as fully open source, it comes with matching italics. Suited to both display headlines and, at its more restrained axis settings, running text.

Classification

Rounded, soft serif terminals with a dedicated Wonk axis place Fraunces in the display serif category despite its variable text-size range.

Weights

ThinExtraLightLightRegularMediumSemiBoldBoldExtraBoldBlack

Optical sizes and widths

Text (9pt)Display (144pt)

Languages