Codystar

Try Codystar

Weights and styles

• Light 300Codystar Light
• Regular 400Codystar Regular

About Codystar

Codystar is a display typeface in which no stroke is solid: each letter is traced by a chain of evenly spaced dots. The underlying shapes are wide geometric capitals with a round O and C, and the lowercase keys return the same capitals, so text always sets in one height. The official description links the design to the lights of Times Square, and the dotted outlines do resemble bulb signs. Two styles are included. Regular uses larger dots; Light keeps the same skeleton with smaller dots, which makes the letters fainter at the same size. Codystar was designed by Crystal Kluge of Neapolitan, which the source describes as a trading name of Font Diner. The fonts contain 230 glyphs in the basic Latin subset and are not variable.

Where Codystar works

Theatre and cinema titles

Dotted capitals imitate bulb lettering on a marquee for show names and opening credits.

Party and event invitations

A date or a one-line headline in dots gives a festive, lit-up look without any illustration.

Neon and casino themed graphics

Light dots on a dark background read as glowing points, which suits night-life artwork.

Large format display

The dots separate clearly once the letters are big, so the face is at home on banners and title slides.

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 Codystar

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 Codystar 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: "Codystar";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Codystar-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Codystar";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Codystar-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Codystar 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=Codystar:wght@300;400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals only

Lowercase input is drawn as capitals; Codystar cannot set mixed-case text.

Needs size

At small sizes the dots shrink towards single pixels, as the weight samples in the specimen show.

Light and Regular differ by dot size

The two weights are 300 and 400. There is no bold and no italic.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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