Cutive

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Cutive Regular

About Cutive

Cutive is a slab serif typeface that Vernon Adams based on a number of classic typewriter faces. It keeps the typewriter vocabulary: strokes of nearly one thickness, flat slab serifs with rounded ends, ball-shaped terminals on a, c, f, j and r, and a wide, round lowercase. Unlike a real typewriter face, the letters are proportionally spaced, so i and l take less room than m and w; the fixed-width version is published separately as the sister family Cutive Mono. The designer's notes say the faces were revived as web fonts both to add character to body text and for larger header and display sizes. The specimen shows a generous x-height, an open two-storey g and a slanted percent sign. Cutive is one Regular style of 439 glyphs, covering Latin and Latin Extended, and is not a variable font.

Where Cutive works

Typewritten-looking text

Slab serifs and ball terminals suggest a typed page while proportional spacing keeps paragraphs compact.

Blog and essay headings

Set large, the round letters and heavy serifs give a title a literary, manuscript feel.

Letters, memos and props

A typed-document look for film props, invitations or stationery without the gaps of monospaced type.

Paired with Cutive Mono

The proportional Cutive can set the prose while its monospaced sister family handles code or tabular lines.

Central European copy

Latin Extended coverage includes the letters for Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish.

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 Cutive

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

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

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

Things to know

Not monospaced

Cutive is proportional. For fixed-width typewriter text the related family is Cutive Mono.

One weight, no italic

Only Regular 400 exists, so emphasis cannot be set in bold or italic within the family.

Latin only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered; Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese are not.

FAQs

Collections with Cutive

• Typewriter fonts

  Monospaced and slab-serif faces modeled on typewriters, from clean screenplay type to worn, inky letters for documents and props.

Similar fonts

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