Goblin One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Goblin One Regular

About Goblin One

Goblin One is a display face in the "Latin" genre, a name given to designs whose serifs are pointed triangles. Its letters are broad and heavy, with medium contrast between thick and thin and a large x-height, so even the lowercase forms a solid, wide band. Round letters such as O, C and G are stretched ovals, and the numerals are just as extended. The official description says the starting point was a sign painted by hand above a pub in Reading, in the United Kingdom, and that the font was made specifically as web type for medium to large sizes. The family consists of a single style, labelled Regular 400 though it looks bold, and it is not variable. Its 250 glyphs belong to the basic Latin subset. Riccardo De Franceschi is the designer.

Where Goblin One works

Pub, brewery and restaurant signs

The design descends from a painted pub sign, and its wide heavy capitals carry a venue name across a fascia.

Short web headlines

It was produced as web type for medium to large sizes; a few words fill the width of a column.

Posters and tickets

Triangular serifs and extended proportions give event titles the look of old painted signage.

Badges and labels

A one-word name in wide letters fits circular or ribbon-shaped marks on bottles and merchandise.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

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

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

Things to know

Very wide

Letters are extended, so a line holds fewer characters than in most headline faces.

One style

Goblin One has Regular 400 only, with no italic or lighter weight.

Basic Latin subset

The 250 glyphs cover Western European languages; French is complete except for the rare capital Ÿ. Latin Extended is not included.

FAQs

Collections with Goblin One

• Bold vintage fonts for poster design

  Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

• Fonts drawn from street signs and painted lettering

  Typefaces based on hand-painted shop signs, truck art, railway boards and protest placards from cities around the world.

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