Inter Sans Serif
Carter One is a display face for headings; Inter is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Carter One
A heavy, forward-leaning casual display face reworking mid-century advertising lettering, in one weight.
Carter One is a casual display typeface by Vernon Adams that reworks informal letterforms common in mid-20th-century advertising and on pulp fiction covers. Carter One has one Regular style, heavy and slanted, with 269 glyphs for Latin text. Carter One is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headlines, posters and playful packaging.
- Designer
- Vernon Adams
- Classification
- Display
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 269
- Languages checked
- 15 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.000
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Carter One
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Carter One; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Carter One Regular
About Carter One
Carter One is a heavy casual display typeface by Vernon Adams. The official description explains that it revisits informal type styles of the mid 20th century, the kind seen in advertisements and on pulp paperbacks, and that the letters were redrawn for web use with more open counters and stems tuned for display sizes. In the specimen every letter leans forward, strokes flare toward their ends and are cut at an angle as if made with a broad brush or marker, a is single-storey and the figures lean with the letters. Carter One is one static Regular file with 269 glyphs in a Latin character set, including the letters for English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish and the Nordic languages. There is no upright, lighter or variable version. The license notice reserves the names Carter and Carter One.
Where Carter One works
- Retro advertising headlines
- The design comes from mid-century ad lettering, which suits sale banners, diner menus and vintage-style promotions.
- Book and comic covers
- Pulp fiction covers are among its sources, and the heavy slanted letters carry a title over artwork.
- Playful packaging
- Flared, brush-like strokes give snack, toy and drink labels an informal voice.
- Social media titles
- The opened-up counters keep a short caption readable when the image is shown small.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 269 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
- 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, Vernon Adams (vern@newtypography.co.uk), with Reserved Font Name "Carter" and "Carter One".
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 Carter One
Amiri Serif
Carter One is a display face for headings; Amiri is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.
News Cycle Sans Serif
Carter One is a display face for headings; News Cycle is a sans serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.
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 Carter One 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: "Carter One";
src: url("/assets/fonts/CarterOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Carter One", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Carter One 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=Carter+One&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- Slanted by design
- Carter One has a built-in forward lean and no upright or separate italic style.
- One weight
- Only Regular 400 exists, and it is drawn heavy.
- Reserved names
- The license notice reserves Carter and Carter One, so a modified version needs a different name unless permission is given.
FAQs
Is Carter One free for commercial use?
Carter One can be used in commercial projects under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which also permits modifying and redistributing the files. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and a modified version keeps the same license and may not use a Reserved Font Name without permission.
Who designed Carter One?
Carter One was designed by Vernon Adams, who is named in the font's name table and the license notice.
How many weights does Carter One have?
Carter One has one weight, Regular 400. It is not a variable font.
Does Carter One have an italic?
No. Carter One is a single style whose letters already lean forward; there is no separate italic or upright version.
Which languages does Carter One support?
Carter One includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Catalan and Swedish.
Comments
No comments yet. If you have used Carter One, tell other readers how it went.
Similar fonts
Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts