Crete Round

Try Crete Round

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Crete Round Regular Italic

About Crete Round

Crete Round is a slab serif family with a soft edge. The serifs are thick slabs, but several are rounded on one side or curve into the stem, and letters such as a, k and y show angled, slightly flared strokes in the specimen. The lowercase is tall, stroke contrast is low, and the numerals are old-style figures that dip below the baseline. According to the official notes, the design began as an adaptation of the original Crete fonts, made as the corporate typeface of the Letter2 type design competition, and then had its terminals and serifs reworked into two fonts that stand apart from the original. Those two fonts are Regular and Italic, both weight 400. TypeTogether holds the copyright, and the name table lists Veronika Burian as designer. The 398 glyphs cover Latin and extended Latin, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Crete Round works

Blog and news headings

Sturdy slabs and a tall lowercase give a headline weight on screen without a separate bold.

Subheads and intro paragraphs

Low contrast keeps strokes from thinning out at the sizes used for a standfirst.

Pull quotes

The Italic sets a quotation apart while keeping the slab construction.

Wordmarks for small brands

Rounded slab serifs soften a name that a square slab would make 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
• 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 Crete Round

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 Crete Round 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: "Crete Round";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CreteRound-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Crete Round";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CreteRound-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Crete Round", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Crete Round 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=Crete+Round:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No bold

Crete Round has one weight, Regular 400, in upright and italic.

Old-style figures in the specimen

The numerals shown vary in height and descend below the baseline.

Latin only

Subsets are Latin and extended Latin; Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese are not included.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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