Nixie One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Nixie One Regular

About Nixie One

Nixie One is a display typeface built from a single thin line. Every stroke has the same hairline thickness, the serifs are flat slabs of that thickness too, and corners and stroke ends are rounded, as if the letters were bent from glass tubing. The skeleton underneath is that of a typewriter face: wide letters, a two-storey a, and slab feet on i, l and r. Jovanny Lemonad, the designer, calls it a cross between neon-tube signage and a typewriter, and compares the unexpected match to chicken cooked with pineapple. The family has only one style; although it is labelled Regular 400, it is very light, so it belongs in headings and not in paragraphs. No italic or bold exists. The 220 glyphs cover Western European Latin, including the letters for German, French, Spanish and the Nordic languages.

Where Nixie One works

Large editorial headlines

At big sizes the hairline strokes and slab serifs form a light, open texture above darker text.

Titles on dark backgrounds

Rounded, even lines in a bright colour on black echo the neon tubing the design refers to.

Retro-technology themes

The typewriter skeleton suits titles about vintage electronics, archives and office machines.

Big numerals

Thin slab-serif figures work as oversized section numbers, prices or dates.

Wordmarks

A short name in wide, monoline slab letters gives a light, technical signature.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Nixie 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 Nixie 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: "Nixie One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/NixieOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Very thin strokes

The single weight is hairline-light and loses contrast at small sizes or on low-resolution screens.

One style

Nixie One has Regular 400 only; there is no bold or italic for emphasis.

Reserved Font Name

The name table reserves the font name Nixie, so a modified version needs another name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Collections with Nixie One

• Thin and hairline fonts for light, airy headings

  Families with a Thin weight and single-style hairline display faces, for large headings, covers and minimal layouts.

• Typewriter fonts

  Monospaced and slab-serif faces modeled on typewriters, from clean screenplay type to worn, inky letters for documents and props.

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