Pompiere

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Pompiere Regular

About Pompiere

Pompiere is a condensed display sans drawn with a thin line of even weight. Its proportions are the unusual part: capitals and ascenders stand roughly twice as high as the lowercase bodies, so words look tall and airy, and the strokes finish in soft rounded ends. Letters such as P, R and the question mark have slightly loose, hand-made curves. According to its makers, the design was prompted by a hand-made sign outside the quarters of a New York City firefighters’ squad in the West Village, and the small x-height and light weight make it a face for medium and large sizes. Pompiere has one Regular style, 270 glyphs and a basic Latin subset. Karolina Lach is credited as designer, Sorkin Type Co. as manufacturer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Pompiere as a reserved font name.

Where Pompiere works

Café and restaurant menus

Tall capitals over a small lowercase give section titles and dish names a sign-painted look in a narrow column.

Packaging for food and gifts

The thin rounded line reads as hand lettering on tags, jars and boxes when set large.

Invitations and announcements

Light weight and long ascenders keep a headline delicate without turning to a script.

Shop signs and window lettering

The design started from a hand-made sign, and its narrow letters fit a long name into a short fascia.

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 Pompiere

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

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

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

Things to know

Small x-height

Lowercase letters are short next to the capitals, so Pompiere needs a larger point size than most sans serifs to reach the same legibility.

Western European Latin only

The font has a Latin subset and no Latin Extended subset. Polish, Turkish and other Central European languages are not among those with complete letters, and French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

One light weight

There is a single Regular style; bold and italic do not exist.

FAQs

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