FontsCantarell
Dave Crossland
SIL Open Font License, 1.1The Cantarell typeface family was designed during my study of MA Typeface Design over 2 years in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading (UK). The class of 2009 will have our work published on typefacedesign.org soon.
The typeface is designed as a contemporary Humanist sans serif, and was developed for on-screen reading; in particular, reading web pages on an HTC Dream mobile phone.
That device runs Google Android, and therefore has a web browser supporting the exciting new web fonts feature known as @font-face. As my very first typeface design, the typeface has many faults, yet it achieves the goal of improving readability on this device.
This highlights my motivation for undertaking a study of typeface design: I believe it is essential that when we use digital tools, our freedom to use, understand, modify and share these tools is respected. Otherwise, when the tool does not work in the way that we need, we will be unable to fix it.
These fonts were developed using only such software, mainly FontForge. Typeface designs are tools too, and therefore these font files are licensed in a way that respects your freedom — you are invited to extend them to meet your needs, such as to add the glyphs missing from your own writing systems, under the terms of the Open Font License.
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.
Font views in the last week
41,238,574This is the total number of times Cantarell was served by the Google Font API over the last week.
Usage by country
This is an overview of the geographical distribution of the requests for Cantarell.
This paragraph text uses Cantarell, which is frequently spotted on the web with Open Sans. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Open Sans, which is frequently spotted on the web with Cantarell. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Cantarell, which is frequently spotted on the web with Lato. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Lato, which is frequently spotted on the web with Cantarell. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
Lobster
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Cantarell
The header text above uses Lobster, and this body text uses Cantarell. Try these fonts out together on your website - experiment with different sizes styles and weights. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
Droid Serif
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Cantarell
The header text above uses Droid Serif, and this body text uses Cantarell. Try these fonts out together on your website - experiment with different sizes styles and weights. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Cantarell, which is frequently spotted on the web with Droid Sans. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Droid Sans, which is frequently spotted on the web with Cantarell. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Cantarell, which is frequently spotted on the web with Oswald. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Oswald, which is frequently spotted on the web with Cantarell. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Cantarell, which is frequently spotted on the web with Fjalla One. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Fjalla One, which is frequently spotted on the web with Cantarell. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
Yanone Kaffeesatz
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Cantarell
The header text above uses Yanone Kaffeesatz, and this body text uses Cantarell. Try these fonts out together on your website - experiment with different sizes styles and weights. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!