Coustard

Try Coustard

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Coustard Regular
• Black 900Coustard Black

About Coustard

Coustard is a slab serif typeface drawn for display and text use on websites. Its serifs are thick and blunt, joined to the stems with a slight curve, and the difference between thick and thin strokes is small, so words form a dark, even band. Letters are wide with large round counters, and the numerals are equally broad; in the Black weight the strokes thicken until the counters become small openings. According to the official notes, Coustard grew out of a fork of Tienne, another open-licensed family. There are two weights, Regular 400 and Black 900, with no italics, and the family is not a variable font. Each font has 361 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Vernon Adams is credited as designer, and Coustard is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Coustard works

Web headlines

Black 900 produces a very dark title line, and the wide slabs keep letters distinct at large sizes.

Article text and intros

Regular has low contrast and sturdy serifs, and the design notes aim it at reading in browsers on desktops and phones.

Pull quotes and subheads

The jump from Regular to Black gives strong contrast between a quote and the surrounding text.

Posters and labels

Blocky serifs and wide letters fill a line firmly in short phrases.

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
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Coustard

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 Coustard 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: "Coustard";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Coustard-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Coustard";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Coustard-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Coustard", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Coustard 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=Coustard:wght@400;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Both weights are upright. Emphasis inside text has to use Black or another device.

Nothing between Regular and Black

The weights sit at 400 and 900 with no Medium or Bold in between.

Related to Tienne

The official notes describe Coustard as a fork of the Tienne family.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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