Libre Caslon Display

Try Libre Caslon Display

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Libre Caslon Display Regular

About Libre Caslon Display

Libre Caslon Display is a serif typeface drawn for large sizes. Its hairlines are very thin against firm vertical stems, the serifs are fine and bracketed, and the letters are narrow with a modest lowercase, so a headline looks light and sharp. The official description gives two points of origin: the face is the display cut of Libre Caslon Text, tuned for headlines on the web, and the Libre Caslon designs follow the Caslon interpretations of hand-lettering artists in 1950s advertising rather than eighteenth-century type specimens. The family is one Regular font, with no italic or bold, and is not a variable font. Its 551 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, and the downloadable file carries extra OpenType features; kerning is credited to Igino Marini. The listing credits Impallari Type, and the name table names Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Libre Caslon Display works

Headlines above serif text

It was made to sit over Libre Caslon Text, so an article title and its body copy share one design.

Magazine and blog titles

At large sizes the thin hairlines become the feature of the title.

Book covers and title pages

Narrow capitals and fine serifs set an author's name and a title with a light touch.

Invitations and labels

A name in large Libre Caslon Display gives a card, box lid or bottle label a formal tone.

Pull quotes

A quotation set large in the display cut contrasts with the sturdier text cut around it.

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 Libre Caslon Display

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

body {
  font-family: "Libre Caslon Display", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Libre Caslon Display has Regular 400 only, without italic or bold.

Hairlines need size

The thin strokes are drawn for display sizes; smaller text is the job of the companion text family.

Latin scripts only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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