Madimi One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Madimi One Regular

About Madimi One

Madimi One is a rounded sans serif drawn for display sizes, with thick strokes that end in soft, fully rounded tips. Its official notes trace the shapes to the curved geometry of certain Southern African graphic symbols, in which the circle is a recurring motif, and the specimen shows that idea carried through: bowls come close to full circles, and the capitals A, M and N are built as arches, like enlarged lowercase forms, instead of meeting at sharp points. The lowercase a is a single closed bowl with a flat bar across it. The family holds one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 351 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets, enough for languages such as French, Turkish, Polish and Hungarian. Taurai Valerie Mtake and Mirko Velimirović are credited as designers, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Madimi One works

Headlines with a soft voice

Thick strokes with rounded tips hold their shape in short titles on posters, banners and the top of a web page.

Logos and wordmarks

The arched capitals A, M and N give a short name a recognisable outline without added ornament.

Friendly brand lettering

Near-circular bowls and blunt stroke ends set a warm tone for cafe menus, community projects and product names.

Stickers and labels

A heavy Regular keeps a product name legible when it is printed small on a label or badge.

Titles in several European languages

Latin Extended coverage lets one headline be set in Turkish, Czech, Polish or Romanian with its accents intact.

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 Madimi One

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

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

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

Things to know

One style only

Madimi One has a single Regular cut. There is no lighter weight, bold or italic, so contrast has to come from size or colour.

Capitals shaped like lowercase arches

In the specimen the capitals A, M and N have rounded tops, which changes the look of all-caps settings compared with a conventional sans.

Latin script only

The character sets are Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not part of the font.

FAQs

Collections with Madimi One

• Rounded friendly fonts for social media and apps

  Sans-serif and display families with rounded stroke ends: soft, approachable type for social posts, onboarding screens and children's brands.

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