Protest Riot

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Protest Riot Regular

About Protest Riot

Protest Riot is a display face from the Protest Types, a project in which Octavio Pardo studies the lettering of protest signs through four families with different voices. Riot is the one modelled on naive, informal street signs. Its letters are thick, unjoined and slightly slanted, with blunt rounded ends and uneven stroke widths, as if written quickly with a loaded brush or a broad marker; R kicks its leg below the baseline and the lowercase keeps a simple schoolbook structure. A technical feature sets the project apart: Riot, Strike and Guerrilla have identical spacing and kerning, so a message can be switched from one to another without any change in line length or layout. The family consists of one Regular style, not variable, with 588 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

Where Protest Riot works

Placards and campaign posters

The shapes come from handwritten street signs, so slogans look painted by hand.

Swapping tone without reflow

Shared spacing and kerning with Protest Strike and Protest Guerrilla allow a designer to change the voice of a headline while the layout stays fixed.

Social media slogans

Thick strokes and simple forms stay readable in a short statement over a photo or flat colour.

Zines and gig flyers

The marker texture fits informal, self-published print.

Market and pop-up signage

Prices and offers set in Riot resemble hand-lettered cards.

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 Protest Riot

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

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

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

Things to know

One style per voice

Protest Riot has Regular 400 only. Variation comes from switching to another Protest family, not from weights.

Same metrics as its siblings

Strike, Guerrilla and Riot are interchangeable in width, according to the project description.

Vietnamese included

Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese are covered; Cyrillic and Greek are not.

FAQs

Collections with Protest Riot

• Brush and marker fonts

  Dry-brush scripts, paint-streaked capitals and felt-marker lettering with visible texture, for energetic headings and handmade branding.

• 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.

Similar fonts

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