Protest Strike

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Protest Strike Regular

About Protest Strike

Protest Strike is a display typeface of thick, compact sans serif letters. It belongs to the Protest Types, which Octavio Pardo began as a personal study of the lettering on protest signs; the project spans four families, and Strike is described as the solid, peaceful one. In the specimen the letters are narrow and tightly fitted, counters are small, and stems end in slanted cuts, with a notch where the bowl of the P meets its stem. According to the project notes, Strike shares its spacing and kerning with Protest Guerrilla and Protest Riot, so a message can be switched between them without changing line lengths. The family has one style, named Regular although it is very dark, and is not a variable font. Its 587 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Protest Strike works

Placards and banners

The letterforms come from a study of protest signs: thick strokes and narrow widths fit a slogan onto a board.

Poster headlines

Tightly fitted heavy letters set a short line as one dark band across a poster.

Campaign graphics with changing tone

Because spacing and kerning match Protest Riot and Protest Guerrilla, a layout can swap voices without reflowing.

Event signage

Compact widths let a long word run large on a narrow sign or stage banner.

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 Strike

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

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

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

Things to know

One heavy style

The only style is Regular 400, which is drawn very dark. There is no lighter weight and no italic.

Shared metrics with sister families

The project notes say Strike, Guerrilla and Riot use the same spacing and kerning. Protest Revolution is not named in that group.

Maths and symbol subsets are incomplete

Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese are covered; the listed maths and symbol subsets are only fragments.

FAQs

Collections with Protest Strike

• 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