Lemon

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Lemon Regular

About Lemon

Lemon is a display face with the fluid shapes of a sign painter's brush. Every letter leans forward, strokes are fat with rounded ends, and counters are small teardrops. Terminals curl slightly, as on the foot of L, the tail of Q and the hook of j and y. The designer drew the capitals with particular care so that words in all caps, compound capitals and acronyms hold together, and the numerals follow the same swing. The family consists of one style, labelled Regular 400 but dark enough to act as a bold; the official description mentions that a lighter weight for longer text was only a future possibility. Lemon is not a variable font. Its 434 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, and a later update enlarged the glyph set and added fractions.

Where Lemon works

Food and drink packaging

Fat, soft letters with small counters fill a label and stay legible on busy, colourful backgrounds.

Shop signs and window lettering

The source is painted shop signage, so a name set in Lemon already looks brushed on.

All-caps titles and acronyms

The capitals were drawn to work together, which lets a short title run entirely in upper case.

Price tags and offers

Heavy numerals in the same style, plus fractions, set prices and quantities at a glance.

Children's event posters

Rounded ends and a forward lean give headings a friendly, informal voice.

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

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 Lemon

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

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

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

Things to know

One dark style

Lemon has only Regular 400, which is visually very heavy. There is no lighter weight for paragraphs.

Slanted by design

The upright does not exist: the single style itself leans to the right.

Latin Extended included

Letters for Central European languages and Turkish are present. Cyrillic and Greek are not.

FAQs

Collections with Lemon

• 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.

Similar fonts

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