Francois One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Francois One Regular

About Francois One

Francois One is a sans serif display typeface based on a reworking of traditional gothic display forms. The official notes explain that the letters were reshaped for the web by opening the counters a little and tuning the stems for bold display typography, and that slanted stem terminals were added for a touch of playfulness. Those angled cuts are visible in the specimen at the tops and feet of letters such as n, r and u, together with heavy strokes, compact widths and a tall lowercase. The family has a single style, named Regular 400 but bold in appearance; it has no italic and no variable axis. The font holds 602 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Vernon Adams is the designer, the copyright names The Francois One Project Authors, and it was added to Google Fonts in 2011.

Where Francois One works

Web headlines

The counters were opened for screen rendering, so heavy titles stay clear at heading sizes.

Poster and flyer titles

Thick stems and compact widths fill a line with a strong, dark band of text.

Thumbnails and social posts

A bold narrow face fits several words into a small image and stays readable.

Shop signs and price tags

Slanted stem ends add an informal touch to short words and numbers.

Sports and school graphics

Gothic display shapes in capitals suit team names and event headers.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Francois 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 Francois 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: "Francois One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FrancoisOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Bold by design

The lone style is called Regular 400, yet it is as heavy as a bold. Lighter text needs another family.

No italic

Francois One has an upright style only.

Slanted terminals

The angled stem ends are part of the design and remain visible at large sizes.

FAQs

Collections with Francois One

• Heavy fonts for thumbnails and social graphics

  Very heavy, compact display fonts that stay readable on a video thumbnail, a story or a feed image seen at a few centimeters wide.

Similar fonts

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