New Rocker

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400New Rocker Regular

About New Rocker

New Rocker is a blackletter display face that trades the fine pen detail of traditional gothic scripts for blunt weight and sharp points. In the specimen the stems are thick and nearly vertical, the counters are small angular openings, and many strokes end in spikes or hooked spurs; capitals such as N, K, L and Q throw long curved swashes under the baseline. The lowercase is more regular and stays readable in short words. The official notes name blackletter, tattoo work and heavy metal logos as the sources. The font is one Regular 400 file with no other weights and no variable axis. Its 429 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including Turkish, Polish, Czech and Romanian letters. It is credited to Impallari Type; the name table lists Pablo Impallari, Brenda Gallo and Rodrigo Fuenzalida. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where New Rocker works

Band logos and gig posters

Heavy metal logos are one of the stated sources, and the spiked terminals deliver that look in a band name or tour date.

Tattoo studio and barber signage

Tattoo lettering is the other source; the swash capitals work as initials on a sign or window.

Merchandise and album titles

A short title in mixed case keeps the swashes on the capitals and the plainer lowercase readable on a shirt or sleeve.

Game and video title cards

Thick stems and angular counters stay solid over busy artwork where a thin gothic script would break up.

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 New Rocker

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

New Rocker is a single Regular 400 file. There is no bold, light or italic.

Swash capitals overlap in all caps

In the specimen's line of capitals, the swashes of K, L and N run under the letters beside them. Mixed case avoids the collisions.

Latin only

New Rocker covers Latin and Latin Extended, with no Cyrillic or Greek subset.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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