Lekton

Try Lekton

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Lekton Regular Italic
• Bold 700Lekton Bold

About Lekton

Lekton is a typewriter-inspired face created at ISIA Urbino, Italy. It was first drawn by a group of students together with their teacher Luciano Perondi, who looked at typefaces from Olivetti typewriters, and the official notes say the first design was made in eight hours; seventeen people are credited in the font. The specimen shows thin, even strokes, narrow letters, a lowercase m squeezed into its cell, a plain unslashed zero and slab feet on i and l. The notes call the original spacing trispaced, built on three modular widths, while the fonts here are classed as monospace and the specimen's alphabet lines end flush. There are Regular 400 and Bold 700, and only Regular has an italic. The 654 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Lekton is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Lekton works

Code listings

Regular, Italic and Bold are the three variants a syntax theme usually asks for, here in a light, narrow design.

Typewriter-style documents

The Olivetti reference suits screenplays, letters and forms that should look typed.

Plain-text tables

Characters that align in columns keep figures and labels in register without tab stops.

Captions and technical labels

Thin strokes and narrow letters fit part numbers and annotations beside diagrams.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: 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 Lekton

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 Lekton 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: "Lekton";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lekton-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lekton";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lekton-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lekton";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lekton-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Lekton", monospace;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Lekton 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=Lekton:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Bold has no italic

The package holds Regular, Italic and Bold. There is no Bold Italic.

Light colour

Regular is thin in the specimen, lighter than most monospaced text faces, and can look faint at small sizes.

Spacing history

The official notes describe the design as trispaced, with widths in three modular steps; the listing classes these files as monospace.

FAQs

Collections with Lekton

• Typewriter fonts

  Monospaced and slab-serif faces modeled on typewriters, from clean screenplay type to worn, inky letters for documents and props.

Similar fonts

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