Concert One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Concert One Regular

About Concert One

Concert One is a display typeface that the official notes call a rounded grotesque. Its designers, Johan Kallas and Mihkel Virkus, took the idea from three-dimensional lettering of the 19th century printed on a leaflet that announced a chamber concert. In the specimen the strokes are thick and almost uniform, every corner and stroke end is rounded, and the letters are compact, with a one-storey a and narrow, upright counters. Although the file is named Regular 400, the weight on the page is heavy. There is no second weight and no italic, and the font is not variable. The 231 glyphs belong to the Latin subset: Western European languages such as German, Spanish and Swedish are covered, along with Slovenian and Estonian, while French lacks only the œ ligature. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Concert One works

Event and gig posters

Thick rounded strokes hold their shape at large sizes and over photographs, in keeping with the concert leaflet that inspired them.

Wordmarks and badges

Compact letters with soft corners build a dense, friendly word shape for a shop sign, sticker or app icon.

Headings on playful sites

The one-storey a and rounded ends give section titles an informal tone above a plainer text face.

Thumbnails and banners

The heavy colour of the single style stays readable in a short phrase on a small preview image.

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
• Slovenian
• Estonian

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French œ, Œ.

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 Concert 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 Concert 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: "Concert One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ConcertOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Concert 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=Concert+One&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Heavy despite the name Regular

The only style is registered as Regular 400 but is drawn as a bold face. No lighter cut exists for text.

Western Latin only

Letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian are missing, and French is covered except for œ.

Reserved names

The license reserves the font names Concert and Concert One, so a modified version must be released under a different name.

FAQs

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