Crushed

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Crushed Regular

About Crushed

Crushed is a narrow display typeface built as a unicase: instead of a conventional lowercase, the small-letter keys produce forms that reach the height of the capitals. In the specimen that row mixes shapes, with a, e, m, n and r keeping their lowercase construction while most other letters repeat the capitals, so a word such as the family's own name alternates between the two. Vertical strokes narrow a little along their length, which softens the otherwise plain sans serif forms. The official notes state that it was designed in 2010 for headlines and display work. There is one Regular style, no italic and no variable axis. The 369 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. The copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, trading as Astigmatic, and the font is published under the Apache License 2.0.

Where Crushed works

Poster and flyer titles

The condensed width fits a long title into a single line, and the mixed unicase shapes give it an irregular rhythm.

Packaging names

Letters of one height stack neatly on narrow labels, cartons and bottle necks.

Logotypes

Typing a name in lowercase yields the unicase mix of round a and e with capital-style consonants, a ready-made wordmark texture.

Section openers in magazines

Tall, narrow lines with tapered stems mark the start of a feature above conventional body type.

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
• 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 Crushed

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

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

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

Things to know

Unicase, not all-caps

Capital and lowercase keys give different shapes for several letters, but both sets share one height; there are no ascenders or descenders to speak of.

One style

Crushed has a single Regular cut without bold or italic.

Apache license

Unlike most families on this site, Crushed is under the Apache License 2.0, which asks that copies keep the license text and notices.

Romanian is incomplete

Latin Extended is largely covered, including Turkish and Polish, but the Romanian ș and ț are missing.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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