Paytone One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Paytone One Regular

About Paytone One

Paytone One is a display sans serif whose single style is far heavier than its Regular 400 label suggests. The bowls of a, b, d, o and p are close to circles, the a is single-storey, and the y ends in a curved tail. Stroke ends on letters such as t, l and k are cut at a slant instead of square, which gives the wide, dark letters an informal tone. Vernon Adams intended the face for titles and headlines on websites. According to the official notes, a February 2023 update to version 1.002 revised the outlines, added Vietnamese diacritics and improved spacing and kerning. The font now holds 669 glyphs across the latin, latin-ext and vietnamese subsets. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and has no italic or companion weights.

Where Paytone One works

Website hero titles

The face was drawn for headlines on the web, and its thick strokes hold up over photographs and coloured backgrounds.

Sale banners and promotions

Round bowls and slanted stroke ends keep a loud price or offer line informal instead of stern.

Social media graphics

Wide, dark letters stay readable when a short phrase is scaled down to a phone-sized image.

Titles in Central European languages and Vietnamese

The 669 glyphs include the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Vietnamese, so translated headlines keep the same face.

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
• Vietnamese

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

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

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

Things to know

Single heavy style

Paytone One has only a Regular file, and that file is very bold in appearance. There is no lighter weight or italic for running text.

Updated in 2023

The official notes record version 1.002 from February 2023, with revised outlines, Vietnamese diacritics and reworked spacing and kerning.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Coverage is limited to the latin, latin-ext and vietnamese subsets.

FAQs

Collections with Paytone One

• Heavy fonts for thumbnails and social graphics

  Very heavy, compact display fonts that stay readable on a video thumbnail, a story or a feed image seen at a few centimeters wide.

Similar fonts

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