Overlock SC

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Overlock SC Regular

About Overlock SC

Overlock SC is a small caps typeface: typing lowercase gives capitals drawn at a reduced height, so a word shows a large initial followed by smaller capitals. In the specimen the strokes are soft at their ends and slightly uneven in thickness, the V and W stand on curved diagonals, and the numerals are old-style, with 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 dropping below the baseline while 6 and 8 rise above the small capitals. According to the official description, the starting idea for Overlock was to imitate the overlock sewing technique, which accounts for the rounded shapes, and the family is aimed at headings and brief passages in magazine-like layouts at larger sizes. Overlock SC holds the small capitals as a separate single-weight family with 246 glyphs. Dario Manuel Muhafara is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Overlock SC works

Magazine titles and section heads

Two heights of capitals give a heading an even band of letters with a marked initial.

Bylines and running heads

Small capitals set names and labels apart from body copy without a change of size.

Dates and prices

Old-style figures sit among the small capitals at a similar height instead of standing above them.

Menus and product labels

The soft stroke ends borrowed from a sewing stitch keep an all-capital line from looking stiff.

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 SC

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

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

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

Things to know

There is no true lowercase

Both cases produce capitals; only their height differs.

Regular only

The Bold and Black weights and the italics belong to the main Overlock family, not to Overlock SC.

Western European Latin

Turkish ğ and ş, Polish ą and ń and Czech č are not in the font.

FAQs

Collections with Overlock SC

• Fonts with small capitals

  Families issued as small-caps cuts, where the lowercase keys give capitals at x-height: for acronyms, headings, credits and refined body text.

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