Kelly Slab

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Kelly Slab Regular

About Kelly Slab

Kelly Slab is a slab serif constructed from rectangles. Round letters such as O, C and e are boxes with rounded corners, stems are straight and even, and the serifs are thin square bars; some of them sit on one side only, as on the lowercase a, d and u. The narrow, upright letters produce a regular vertical rhythm that the designer associates with sporty and urban subjects. According to his description, the starting point was the geometric fonts with square slab serifs that were popular in the 1930s, and the intended uses are advertising, headings, large labels and logotypes, with larger text blocks also possible. Kelly Slab has a single Regular style of 453 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic character sets. Denis Masharov is the designer and copyright holder, and the font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Kelly Slab works

Sports and team graphics

Box-shaped curves and square serifs resemble jersey lettering, so names, numbers and score lines look at home.

Advertising headlines

The designer aimed it at attention-getting advertising; the narrow letters let a slogan run large.

Logotypes

One-sided serifs on a, d and u give a short name a distinctive outline.

Latin and Cyrillic titles

Both alphabets are drawn in the same rectangular style, so Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian headings match English ones.

Large labels and signs

Straight stems and squared counters keep their shape when cut from vinyl or printed big.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Kelly Slab

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

body {
  font-family: "Kelly Slab", serif;
}

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

Things to know

The @ sign is missing

The character set has no @ glyph, and the specimen leaves its place empty. Email addresses will fall back to another font.

One weight

Regular is the only style; there is no bold, italic or variable version.

Two reserved names

The license notice reserves both Kelly and Kelly Slab as font names for the original.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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