Limelight

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Limelight Regular

About Limelight

Limelight is a display typeface in the high-contrast geometric style associated with Art Deco. Each letter plays one very heavy stroke against lines thinned to hairlines: the capital A sets a solid wedge against a thread-thin left stroke, and in the lowercase the fat bowls are finished with fine details such as the looped ear of g and the long crossbar of t. The lowercase is wide with short ascenders. Official notes link the style to the 1920s, to the theatre and to Hollywood film, and say that the extreme contrast makes the font most reliable on web pages at medium and large sizes. There is one Regular style and no italic. The font holds 413 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Nicole Fally designed Limelight, Sorkin Type holds the copyright, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Limelight works

Theatre and cinema posters

The Art Deco contrast signals stage and film, the associations named in the font's own description.

1920s-themed events

A party name or date in Limelight sets the period on an invitation or a ticket without added ornament.

Bar and restaurant names

The heavy wedges and hairlines of the capitals make a short name work as a sign or a menu title.

Title cards

Wide lowercase with short ascenders fills a title frame as a dense band of black and fine lines.

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

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 Limelight

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

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

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

Things to know

Hairlines need size

The thin strokes are a fraction of the heavy ones; the official notes advise medium and large sizes on screen.

One style

Limelight has a single Regular weight and no italic or bold.

Latin and Latin Extended

There is no Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese character set.

FAQs

Collections with Limelight

• Art Deco fonts and 1920s geometric display faces

  Hairline geometrics, multi-line capitals and high-contrast display faces in the manner of the 1920s and 1930s, with two Bauhaus relatives.

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