Amiri Serif
Actor is sans serif and Amiri is serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Actor
A humanist sans by Thomas Junold with a tall x-height and old-style figures, born as a diploma thesis.
Actor is a sans serif typeface by Thomas Junold that began as a diploma thesis project at Aachen University of Applied Sciences. Actor has one Regular style with 237 glyphs in the Latin subset, a tall x-height and old-style figures. Actor is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headings, captions and short texts.
- Designer
- Thomas Junold
- Classification
- Sans Serif
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 237
- Languages checked
- 14 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.001
- Used for
- HeadlinesEditorialMinimalist
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Actor
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Actor; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Actor Regular
About Actor
Actor is a sans serif typeface with open, lightly modulated letters and numerals that rise and fall like lowercase. The official notes explain that it started as a diploma thesis at Aachen University of Applied Sciences, in a type design course whose aim was to study writing as a carrier of information, and that it was drawn entirely digitally. The same notes point out its strong x-height, which calls for generous line spacing, and its old-style figures: the 6 and 9 are tenser than usual, the 8 has shifted interior shapes and the 7 curves slightly to the left. All of this is visible in the specimen. Thomas Junold is the designer. The family is one Regular style, with no bold or italic. Its 237 glyphs stay within the Latin subset, enough for Western European languages and Estonian.
Where Actor works
- Headings and intros on websites
- The tall x-height keeps mixed-case headings large and clear at moderate font sizes.
- Captions with dates and numbers
- Old-style figures blend years and quantities into lowercase text instead of standing out as capitals-high digits.
- Short articles in Western European languages
- The Latin subset covers English, German, French, Spanish and the Nordic languages in one file.
- Clean identity work
- Open forms and one even weight give a name or tagline a calm, unadorned look.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 237 glyphs.
Language support
The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Dutch
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Danish
- Finnish
- Icelandic
- Catalan
- Estonian
Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2011, Thomas Junold <hallo@buerofueraufmerksamkeit.de>, with Reserved Font Name "Actor".
What the license allows
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.
Conditions
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.
This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.
Fonts that pair with Actor
Antic Slab Slab Serif
Actor is sans serif and Antic Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Cutive Mono Monospace
Cutive Mono is a monospace family (1 weight) for code and figures next to Actor as the text face.
Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.
Use Actor on the web
Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.
CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: "Actor";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Actor-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Actor", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Actor with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Actor&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- Needs open line spacing
- The designer notes that the strong x-height always requires a fairly high line spacing.
- Figures are old-style
- The digits vary in height and several descend below the baseline, which is awkward in tables that need aligned numbers.
- No Central European letters
- Letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian are not in the font.
FAQs
Is Actor free for commercial use?
Yes. Actor is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use the reserved name "Actor" without permission.
Who designed Actor?
Actor was designed by Thomas Junold as a diploma thesis project at Aachen University of Applied Sciences.
How many weights does Actor have?
Actor has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic. It is not a variable font.
Does Actor have lining figures?
The default figures of Actor are old-style, with digits of varying height. The official notes describe them that way, and the specimen shows no lining set.
Which languages does Actor support?
Actor includes the letters needed for English and Western European languages such as German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Icelandic, plus Estonian. Turkish and Polish are not covered.
Comments
No comments yet. If you have used Actor, tell other readers how it went.
Similar fonts
Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts