Chau Philomene One

Try Chau Philomene One

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Chau Philomene One Regular Italic

About Chau Philomene One

Chau Philomene One is a condensed sans serif with dark, tightly packed letters. The specimen shows stems that end in slanted cuts rather than flat ones, a Q whose tail sits under the bowl as a separate bar, and an ampersand built from an E and a T. Curves are squeezed into tall, narrow shapes, so many characters fit on a line even at headline sizes. The family belongs to the Chau superfamily, which the official notes describe as having four families, and it is meant for headings and emphasised text. There is one weight, Regular 400, with a matching Italic, which gives two styles; both are static files. Each file holds 328 glyphs in the Latin subset. Vicente Lamónaca is the designer, the copyright notice names TipoType, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Chau Philomene One works

Headings in narrow columns

The condensed width lets a long heading stay on one line in a sidebar or a mobile layout.

Highlighted words inside a layout

The dark colour of the single weight separates a price, a date or a label from lighter surrounding text.

Posters with a slanted title

The Italic style gives a second voice for a subtitle without leaving the family.

Wayfinding and shop signs

Tall, compact letters with open angled cuts fit long words onto narrow sign panels.

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

Fonts that pair with Chau Philomene One

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 Chau Philomene 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Chau Philomene One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ChauPhilomeneOne-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Chau Philomene One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ChauPhilomeneOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Chau Philomene One", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Chau Philomene One with this markup:

<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=Chau+Philomene+One:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two styles, one weight

Regular and Italic share the 400 weight. A lighter or bolder cut is not part of this family.

Latin subset only

The files carry the latin subset; latin-ext is not among the subsets, and no Cyrillic or Greek characters are present.

Unusual ampersand and Q

The ampersand reads as an Et ligature and the Q carries a detached bar. Check both in a logo or title before committing.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts