Freeman

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Freeman Regular

About Freeman

Freeman is a condensed display sans serif in the gothic tradition, drawn heavy and narrow so that many letters fit into one headline. Its stems finish in slanted cuts instead of flat ones, visible in the specimen at the tops of b, d, h and k, a detail the official notes connect with handwriting. Counters are kept open for a face this dark, and the stems were tuned for rendering as bold display type in web browsers. There is one style, labelled Regular 400 even though it looks bold, and no italic. The font holds 1,571 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and the notes add African Latin to that list. The name table credits Vernon Adams, Aoife Mooney and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, with Fuenzalida named as manufacturer.

Where Freeman works

News-style headlines

Narrow, dark letters pack a long headline into a single column width.

Event posters with long titles

The condensed width leaves room for dates and names beside a title set large.

Video thumbnails and social graphics

The stems were adjusted for screen rendering, and the heavy colour stays readable over photographs.

Campaign headings in several languages

With 1,571 glyphs, the same headline style works in Vietnamese, Turkish, Polish and other Latin-script languages.

Section banners and labels

Capitals of even width stack neatly in short labels and navigation banners.

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 Freeman

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

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

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

Things to know

One style, named Regular

The only style is registered as Regular 400 although the drawing is as heavy as a bold. No lighter weight or italic exists.

Not a variable font

Freeman ships as a single static file.

Wide Latin coverage

The official notes list Western, Central and South-Eastern European languages, full Vietnamese and African Latin.

FAQs

Collections with Freeman

• 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.

• Fonts that support Vietnamese

  Open-license families that include the stacked diacritics Vietnamese needs, among them several designed in or for Vietnam.

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