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Blinker

A low-contrast sans serif built on rounded-square curves, in eight weights from Thin to Black.

Sans Serif 8 styles by Juergen Huber OFL

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Blinker is a low-contrast sans serif by Juergen Huber of supertype whose round letters are drawn as rounded squares. Blinker comes in eight static weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, without italics, and has 457 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headings, interface labels and medium-size text.

Blinker font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Juergen Huber
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 8 weights
Variable font
No
Glyphs
457
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.015;PS 1.15;hotconv 1.0.88;makeotf.lib2.5.647800
Used for
HeadlinesInterfacesBrandingTech

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Blinker

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Blinker; the download contains the complete files.

Blinker font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Blinker specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Blinker Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Blinker ExtraLight
  • Light 300Blinker Light
  • Regular 400Blinker Regular
  • SemiBold 600Blinker SemiBold
  • Bold 700Blinker Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Blinker ExtraBold
  • Black 900Blinker Black

About Blinker

Blinker is a sans serif typeface whose basic shape is the squircle, a square with rounded corners. The bowls of o, b, d and p have flattened sides and tight corners instead of circular curves, stroke thickness barely changes within a letter, and terminals are cut straight. The official notes recommend it for medium and large text more than for long passages. This package holds eight static weights: Thin 100, ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800 and Black 900. There are no italics, and the family is not a variable font. In the specimen the Black weight sits tighter and has a taller x-height than the weights below it. Each font contains 457 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Juergen Huber designed Blinker at supertype in 2019, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Blinker works

Technology and product branding
Squared curves give a name or slogan a constructed, engineered look, with Thin and Black as the two extremes.
Interface headings and buttons
Flat-sided letters fill a button or tab evenly, and SemiBold and Bold separate actions from plain labels.
Large headlines
ExtraBold and Black are tightly spaced and hold together as a block at hero sizes.
Thin display lines
Thin 100 and ExtraLight 200 are hairline weights for large numerals and titles on dashboards or posters.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 457 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
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 2019 the Blinker project authors (https://github.com/supertype-de/Blinker)

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 Blinker

Arapey Serif

Blinker is sans serif and Arapey is serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Bevan Slab Serif

Blinker is sans serif and Bevan 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 Blinker 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 Blinker 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: "Blinker";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Blinker-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Blinker";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Blinker-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Blinker";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Blinker-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Blinker";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Blinker-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 4 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Blinker", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Blinker with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No Medium in this package
The weights go from Regular 400 straight to SemiBold 600; there is no Medium 500.
No italics
All eight fonts are upright. Emphasis has to come from a heavier weight.
Latin and Latin Extended only
Blinker has no Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese character set.

FAQs

Is Blinker free for commercial use?

Yes. Blinker 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.

Who designed Blinker?

Blinker was designed by Juergen Huber of the foundry supertype. The copyright notice names the Blinker project authors.

How many weights does Blinker have?

Blinker has eight weights here: Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Black. None has an italic.

Is Blinker a variable font?

No. Blinker is not a variable font; each weight is a separate static file.

Is Blinker good for body text?

The official notes describe Blinker as suited to medium and large text more than long copy. Use it for headings, labels and short paragraphs.

Which languages does Blinker support?

Blinker includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Czech.

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