Poller One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Poller One Regular

About Poller One

Poller One is a display sans serif drawn in a single heavy style. The letters are semi-extended, and thick vertical strokes meet much thinner horizontals and joins, a contrast seldom seen in a sans this dark. Stroke ends flare a little, the lowercase g is a two-storey form with a small ear, and the counters of a, e and o narrow to slits and small ovals. The official notes trace the style to hand lettering on German posters from the early twentieth century and, because of the contrast, recommend it from medium sizes upwards. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 232 glyphs cover the basic Latin set; French is complete except for the rare capital Ÿ. Yvonne Schüttler is the designer, the copyright notice names Sorkin Type Co, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Poller One works

Poster headlines

The design descends from poster lettering, and its wide dark letters fill a line with only a few words.

Mastheads and event names

Thick stems against thin joins give a short name a pattern that stays recognisable at a distance.

Packaging fronts

A product name in Poller One carries weight without needing an outline or shadow.

Section openers in magazines

One or two words at large size make a dark anchor above lighter text columns.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

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

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

Things to know

One heavy style

The only file is Regular 400, and it is drawn very dark. No lighter weight or italic exists.

Small counters

The openings inside a, e and s are narrow, so the letters fill in at small sizes; the official notes advise medium sizes and above.

Basic Latin only

The font has 232 glyphs and no Latin Extended subset, so languages such as Polish, Czech and Turkish are not complete.

FAQs

Collections with Poller One

• Bold vintage fonts for poster design

  Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

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