Frijole

Try Frijole

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Frijole Regular

About Frijole

Frijole is a display typeface with thick slab-serif letters whose edges look worn and smeared. In the specimen each character has a lumpy outline with stray flecks beside it, as if printed from a battered stamp, and the letters tilt and shift slightly so that a line never sits straight. Typing lowercase gives smaller capitals instead of true lowercase forms, and the numerals and punctuation share the rough treatment. The family has one style, named Regular although it is very heavy, with 227 glyphs covering Western European Latin; it is not a variable font. The official description is a single line calling the face bold, spicy and satisfying. Frijole is credited to Sideshow, a trading name of Font Diner, and the font's name table lists the designer as Squid.

Where Frijole works

Restaurant menus and food trucks

The face is pitched with food words by its makers, and its chunky slabs suit dish names and specials boards.

Party and event posters

Uneven, tilted letters give a headline a loud, hand-printed feel.

Sauce and snack packaging

Rough edges look stamped onto a label, which fits informal food brands.

T-shirt and sticker graphics

Heavy letter bodies survive screen printing and small sticker sizes.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Frijole

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

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

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

Things to know

Small capitals, no lowercase

Lowercase input produces reduced capitals, so every word reads as capitals.

The distress is built in

The flecks and ragged edges are part of each glyph and cannot be switched off.

Western European Latin

The font has 227 glyphs and no Latin Extended set.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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