Overlock

Try Overlock

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Overlock Regular Italic
• Bold 700Overlock Bold Bold Italic
• Black 900Overlock Black Black Italic

About Overlock

Overlock is a display sans serif with softly rounded stroke ends and a hand-drawn rhythm. Dario Manuel Muhafara started from the idea of imitating the overlock sewing technique, and the rounded shapes that came out of it give the letters their warmth. The specimen shows a light, slightly calligraphic Regular: strokes thicken gently, the lowercase k closes into a loop, and the capitals are narrow next to a wide O and Q. The official notes place it in the titles and brief texts of magazine-like layouts and say it shows at its strongest at larger sizes. The family has Regular 400, Bold 700 and Black 900, each paired with a true italic, in static files. It holds 329 glyphs covering basic Latin. Small capitals live in a sister family, Overlock SC. Overlock is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Overlock works

Magazine titles and standfirsts

The family was aimed at the titles and brief texts of magazine-like layouts, where its rounded ends show at size.

Food and craft branding

Soft terminals and the looped k give a name on a label or shopfront a hand-made tone without becoming a script.

Pull quotes

True italics in all three weights let a quotation be set apart from the roman around it.

Event flyers

Black 900 carries the title while Regular handles date and place, so a flyer needs no second family.

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 Overlock

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 Overlock 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: "Overlock";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Overlock-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Overlock";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Overlock-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Overlock";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Overlock-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Overlock";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Overlock-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Overlock 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=Overlock:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;0,900;1,400;1,700;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Three weights with a gap

The weights jump from Regular 400 to Bold 700 and Black 900. There is no light, medium or semibold.

Small caps are separate

Small capitals are published as the sister family Overlock SC, not inside these files.

Basic Latin only

The 329 glyphs belong to the latin subset; Latin Extended is not listed for lack of coverage.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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