# Protest Riot font

> The informal street-sign voice of the Protest Types: thick marker lettering that shares its spacing with its siblings.

Protest Riot is a display typeface by Octavio Pardo that imitates naive, informal street signs written with a thick brush or marker. Protest Riot has one Regular style with 588 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and shares its spacing and kerning with Protest Strike and Protest Guerrilla. Protest Riot is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## Facts

- Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display)
- Designed by: Octavio Pardo
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 588
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-05-30
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Protest+Riot
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/protest-riot
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Casual, Signage, Social media

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2013 The Protest Project Authors (https://github.com/octaviopardo/Protest)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Protest Riot free for commercial use?

Yes. Protest Riot is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Protest Riot?

Protest Riot was designed by Octavio Pardo as part of the Protest Types, his four font families based on protest signs. The font file lists Ashler Design as manufacturer.

### Can I swap Protest Riot with Protest Strike without changing my layout?

Yes, according to the project description: Protest Riot, Strike and Guerrilla share spacing and kerning, so line lengths stay the same.

### How many weights does Protest Riot have?

Protest Riot has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic. Protest Riot is not a variable font.

### Which languages does Protest Riot support?

Protest Riot includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, French, German, Polish, Czech, Turkish and Vietnamese.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/protest-riot (trendhub)