Ledger

Try Ledger

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ledger Regular

About Ledger

Ledger is a serif typeface built to stay legible under poor reproduction. Its lowercase is tall, the difference between thick and thin strokes is pronounced without being fragile, and the serifs and terminals are wedge-shaped; in the specimen the capitals are wide and generously spaced and the a and r end in firm, tapered terminals. The official notes say these features were designed for unfavourable print and display conditions, naming newspapers, laser printers and low-resolution screens, and they suggest editorial work, corporate identity and advertising as uses. The family consists of a single Regular style: there is no bold, no italic and no variable axis. The font holds 452 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic character sets. Denis Masharov designed Ledger, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Ledger works

Newspaper and magazine headings

Wedge serifs and strong contrast give headlines a newsprint voice at medium and large sizes.

Office documents

The tall lowercase was designed with laser printing in mind, so letters and reports stay crisp on plain paper.

Russian and Latin editions

A Cyrillic set drawn in the same style lets a title or pull quote appear in both scripts.

Corporate identity lines

Wide, evenly spaced capitals suit a company name or a strapline set in small sizes of all caps.

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
• 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 Ledger

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

body {
  font-family: "Ledger", serif;
}

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

Things to know

Regular only

Ledger has one weight and no italic, so emphasis in running text needs another family or a change of size.

Latin and Cyrillic, no Greek

The subsets are Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic.

Compact file

The font has 452 glyphs and comes as a single TTF of about 60 KB.

FAQs

Collections with Ledger

• Fonts for newspapers and magazines

  Headline serifs, compact text faces and news gothics for editorial layouts in print and on news sites.

Similar fonts

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