Philosopher

Try Philosopher

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Philosopher Regular Italic
• Bold 700Philosopher Bold Bold Italic

About Philosopher

Philosopher is a sans serif typeface whose strokes swell and flare at the ends, so that several letters carry small spur-like finishes where a serif would sit. Thick verticals and thinner curves give it more contrast than most sans serifs, and capitals such as M, N and U are drawn with slender, slightly curved strokes. The family has four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Jovanny Lemonad began the project in 2008 and intended it for logos, headlines and text alike. The official notes say the first version was released with deliberate errors that were corrected later, that the four-style family appeared in June 2011, and that the Latin and Cyrillic fonts were fully hinted in September 2011. The fonts hold 553 glyphs across Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Philosopher works

Wordmarks and logos

Flared stroke ends and slender capitals give a company name a drawn, individual character without adding full serifs.

Headlines in Russian and English

Latin and Cyrillic are both in the fonts, so a bilingual title uses matching letterforms.

Book covers and cultural posters

The contrast between thick and thin strokes shows clearly when Philosopher is set large.

Short articles and introductions

Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic cover text, emphasis and subheadings within one 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
• Turkish
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, 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 Philosopher

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 Philosopher 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: "Philosopher";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Philosopher-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Philosopher";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Philosopher-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Philosopher";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Philosopher-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Philosopher";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Philosopher-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Four static styles

Philosopher has Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic. There are no intermediate weights and no variable version in the package.

Not a plain grotesque

Stroke ends flare and some letters have spur-like finishes, so the face sits between a sans serif and a serif in appearance.

Central European coverage is partial

Turkish, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian are among the checked languages; Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian are not.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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