Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif
Chelsea Market is a display face for headings; Montserrat Alternates is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Chelsea Market
A rough-edged display sans in one weight, with wavering outlines and a geometric skeleton.
Chelsea Market is a display typeface credited to Tart Workshop, with wobbly, rough-edged outlines that look cut or stamped by hand. Chelsea Market has one style, Regular, with 228 glyphs in the Latin subset. Chelsea Market is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headings, signs, menus and posters.
- Designer
- Tart Workshop
- Classification
- Display
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 228
- Languages checked
- 14 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.001
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Chelsea Market
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Chelsea Market; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Chelsea Market Regular
About Chelsea Market
Chelsea Market is a display typeface with a single style. Its skeleton is a geometric sans, with a circular O and a single-storey a, but the outlines are deliberately irregular: edges waver, stroke ends look chipped, stems lean a few degrees off vertical and letters shift slightly above and below the baseline in the specimen. The result resembles lettering cut from paper or printed from a worn stamp. The official description is a single line that calls the feel quirky and bohemian. Google Fonts credits Tart Workshop; the name table names Crystal Kluge as designer and Font Diner, Inc, doing business as Tart Workshop, as manufacturer. The file has 228 glyphs in the Latin subset, and only Regular 400 is provided. Chelsea Market was added to Google Fonts in 2012 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Where Chelsea Market works
- Café menus and chalkboard-style signs
- Uneven edges give a heading the look of hand-cut or hand-painted lettering.
- Craft fair and market posters
- The geometric skeleton keeps words readable while the rough contour signals something handmade.
- Labels for handmade goods
- A product name set large shows the chipped stroke ends that carry the design.
- Headings on informal websites
- One Regular file is a small addition for a page that needs a single distinctive title style.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 228 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, Font Diner (www.fontdiner.com), with Reserved Font Name "Chelsea Market".
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 Chelsea Market
Alegreya Serif
Chelsea Market is a display face for headings; Alegreya is a serif family with 6 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Inter Sans Serif
Chelsea Market is a display face for headings; Inter is a sans serif family with 9 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 Chelsea Market 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: "Chelsea Market";
src: url("/assets/fonts/ChelseaMarket-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Chelsea Market", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Chelsea Market 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=Chelsea+Market&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- One style
- Chelsea Market has Regular 400 only: no bold, no italic.
- Roughness needs size
- The wavering edges are fine detail; at text sizes they stop reading as texture.
- Language coverage is narrow
- The letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian are not complete.
FAQs
Is Chelsea Market free for commercial use?
Yes. Chelsea Market is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so it may be used in personal and commercial work, modified and redistributed. It cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions keep the same license.
Who designed Chelsea Market?
Chelsea Market is credited to Tart Workshop. The font's name table names Crystal Kluge as designer and Font Diner, Inc as the company behind Tart Workshop.
How many weights does Chelsea Market have?
Chelsea Market has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic.
Is Chelsea Market a variable font?
No. Chelsea Market is not a variable font; it is a single static file.
Which languages does Chelsea Market support?
Chelsea Market includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Estonian and the Nordic languages.
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