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Brawler

A compact, sharp-featured text serif in Regular and Bold, first planned for newspapers and tabloids.

Serif 2 styles by Cyreal OFL

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Brawler is a compact text serif from the foundry Cyreal, with sharp details and sturdy strokes meant for comfortable reading at small sizes. Brawler has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, without italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits news-style articles, dense columns and headlines in the Bold.

Brawler font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Cyreal
Classification
Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
2 2 weights
Variable font
No
Glyphs
240
Languages checked
13 see the list
Last updated
version 1.101; ttfautohint (v1.8.3)
Used for
HeadlinesBody textEditorial

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

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Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Brawler Regular
  • Bold 700Brawler Bold

About Brawler

Brawler is a serif typeface drawn for small text. Its letters are compact with a large lowercase, sturdy stems and moderate contrast, and the details are cut sharp: angled wedge serifs on the stems and crisp joins where curves meet verticals, visible in the specimen on n, r and the capitals. The official notes say it was first planned as a face for newspapers and tabloids, so the concept answers the demands of low-quality printing and the taste of periodicals. The family has two styles, Regular and Bold, with 240 glyphs covering basic Latin and Western European accents. Cyreal is credited as the designer; the font's name table, by contrast, lists Oleg Frolov and Haley Fiege.

Where Brawler works

Article text in narrow columns
Compact letters fit more characters per line, the economy a newspaper face is built for.
Print on rough paper
Sturdy strokes and sharp serifs were shaped with low-quality printing in mind.
News headlines
The Bold provides a darker companion for headlines and subheads over Regular text.
Captions and small print
The design goal was comfortable reading at small sizes.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 240 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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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 2011 The Brawler Project Authors (https://github.com/cyrealtype/Brawler)

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 Brawler

Open Sans Sans Serif

Brawler is serif and Open Sans is sans serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Lekton Monospace

Lekton is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Brawler as the text face.

Prompt Sans Serif

Brawler is serif and Prompt is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

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 Brawler 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: "Brawler";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Brawler-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Brawler";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Brawler-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Brawler", serif;
}

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
Brawler has Regular and Bold only. Titles and emphasis that normally take italics need another solution.
Western European Latin
The 240 glyphs cover Western European languages. French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ.
Two static files
The family is not a variable font.

FAQs

Is Brawler free for commercial use?

Yes. Brawler 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 Brawler?

Brawler is credited to the foundry Cyreal. The font's name table lists Oleg Frolov and Haley Fiege, so the sources differ on individual credit.

How many weights does Brawler have?

Brawler has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700. Both are upright; there is no italic.

Which languages does Brawler support?

Brawler includes the letters needed for English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, the Nordic languages and Catalan; French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ.

Is Brawler good for body text?

Yes, within its limits: Brawler was designed for comfortable reading at small sizes, but it has no italic and covers Western European Latin only.

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