Poetsen One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Poetsen One Regular

About Poetsen One

Poetsen One is a display face with the look of letters painted with a round brush. Strokes are thick with rounded ends, the letters lean forward a few degrees, and details such as the curled tail of y, the looped k and the single-storey g come from sign writing rather than from a drawn sans. Its makers name two sources, the hand-painted signs found in supermarkets and the roman structure of classical alphabets, and that second source keeps the proportions regular. Because the x-height is large, they note that it also works for short paragraphs at fairly small sizes, not only for big titles. Poetsen One is a single static style of 446 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Pablo Impallari are the designers, and the font is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Poetsen as a reserved font name.

Where Poetsen One works

Price signs and offers

The model is supermarket sign painting, and the thick figures and percent sign carry a price from a distance.

Food and drink packaging

Rounded brush-like strokes give a product name a friendly, hand-made tone.

Titles for children’s content

Soft stroke ends and a forward lean make headings lively without becoming hard to read.

Short blocks of copy

A large x-height lets a few lines of text stay legible at modest sizes, as the designers intended.

Stickers and social posts

The dense black shapes hold their outline over photos and coloured backgrounds.

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

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

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

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

Things to know

The slant is built in

There is no upright version; the forward lean seen in the specimen is the only style.

One heavy weight

The file is labelled Regular 400 although the letters are bold, so there is nothing lighter to pair it with inside the family.

Reserved name

Poetsen is a reserved font name under the license, so modified versions must be renamed.

FAQs

Collections with Poetsen One

• Fonts drawn from street signs and painted lettering

  Typefaces based on hand-painted shop signs, truck art, railway boards and protest placards from cities around the world.

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