Racing Sans One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Racing Sans One Regular

About Racing Sans One

Racing Sans One is a display sans serif in one slanted, heavy style. In the specimen the letters lean forward, thick stems narrow sharply where curves join them, and round letters such as O and e keep small, tilted counters. That thick-and-thin contrast is the point of the design: the official notes explain that the earliest sans serifs with lowercase had high contrast, that the genre later moved to monoline shapes, and that Racing Sans pays tribute to the older manner after its makers studied American foundry specimens from 1897 and 1906. There is no upright companion and no variable axis. Its 471 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. The family is credited to Impallari Type; the copyright notice names Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida. Racing Sans One is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Racing Sans One works

Motorsport and event posters

The built-in slant and heavy strokes suggest speed in a race title or fixture headline without added effects.

Sports team graphics

Numerals lean at the same angle as the letters, which suits scorelines, player numbers and match-day banners.

Retro wordmarks

High stroke contrast in a sans serif recalls foundry type from around 1900 and gives a short brand name a period feel.

Sale and promo headlines

The heavy style fills a banner in two or three words; its tight counters need large sizes to stay open.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Racing Sans One

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

body {
  font-family: "Racing Sans One", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

Slanted only

The only style is already oblique. There is no upright version and no lighter weight.

Named Regular, drawn heavy

The file is registered as Regular 400, but in the specimen the strokes are as thick as a black weight.

Latin character sets

The 471 glyphs are organised in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets.

FAQs

Collections with Racing Sans One

• Fonts for sports teams and jerseys

  A college block slab, squared condensed sans-serifs, speed-lined italics and an athletic script for team names, numbers and match graphics.

Similar fonts

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