Puritan

Try Puritan

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Puritan Regular Italic
• Bold 700Puritan Bold Bold Italic

About Puritan

Puritan is a sans serif typeface with humanist proportions and a slightly narrow build. Its designer, Ben Weiner, writes that he drew it while studying sans serif type on the typography course at Reading University, as his own response to the grotesque, geometric and humanist strands he was learning about, and that he entered it in a type design contest in October 1999. In the specimen strokes thin a little at the joins, capitals are narrower than the round lowercase, and the numerals are old-style figures that rise above and drop below the x-height. The family has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, four styles in total, and is not a variable font. Each font has 237 glyphs covering the basic Latin set. Puritan is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Puritan as a Reserved Font Name.

Where Puritan works

Body text in print and on screen

Regular with its italic and Bold with its italic give the four styles a text setting usually needs.

Text with dates and figures

Old-style numerals sit among lowercase letters, so years and amounts do not interrupt a paragraph.

Captions and notes

The slightly narrow letters save width in small blocks of text.

Plain headings

Bold provides a darker heading in the same shapes as the text.

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
• Estonian

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 Puritan

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 Puritan 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: "Puritan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Puritan-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Puritan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Puritan-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Puritan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Puritan-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Puritan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Puritan-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Puritan 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=Puritan:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Old-style figures by default

Numerals vary in height. For tables that need figures of equal height, test before committing.

Basic Latin only

The subset is Latin, without Latin Extended.

A student-era design

The designer describes Puritan as an early learning project and says himself that it may be flawed.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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