Contrail One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Contrail One Regular

About Contrail One

Contrail One is a display typeface drawn from hand-made sans serif lettering found on posters in the United Kingdom. Every letter leans forward, the proportions are narrow, strokes are heavy and nearly even in thickness, and the corners are rounded off. In the specimen the stems flare a little toward the top and the baseline is not rigid, which gives a line of text a slight bounce; the official notes connect that slant and bounce with the early jet age. Contrail One was made as a web font and, being low in contrast, is meant for medium to large sizes. The family has one style, named Regular although it is slanted and heavy, with 231 glyphs covering Western European Latin. Riccardo De Franceschi is credited as the designer and Sorkin Type Co holds the copyright.

Where Contrail One works

Web headlines

Contrail One was built for the web, and its narrow letters keep a long headline on one line.

Travel and aviation themes

The forward slant and springy baseline echo mid-century poster lettering about speed and flight.

Sports and event banners

Heavy slanted capitals read as motion on scoreboards, banners and promotional tiles.

Buttons and badges

Rounded corners soften the heavy strokes, so a short label looks friendly instead of severe.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

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

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

Things to know

Slanted only

The single style is already oblique; there is no upright version to pair it with.

Not for small text

The official notes place the face at medium to large sizes.

Western European Latin

The font has 231 glyphs; French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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