Radio Canada Big

Try Radio Canada Big

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Radio Canada Big Regular Italic
• Medium 500Radio Canada Big Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Radio Canada Big SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Radio Canada Big Bold Bold Italic

Radio Canada Big is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Radio Canada Big

Radio Canada Big is a sans serif family with firm, even strokes and close letter spacing. In the specimen the lowercase is tall, the openings of a, c, e and s are fairly closed, the t and f have short crossbars, and the quotation marks are plain slanted ticks. The official notes introduce the family with CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada's national public broadcaster, whose mandate is to inform, enlighten and entertain across radio, television and digital platforms. The fonts are variable in weight from 400 to 700, giving four named weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, each with an italic. Étienne Aubert Bonn is the designer, and the name table lists Coppers and Brasses as manufacturer. The 468 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended subsets, including French, the Nordic languages and Central European alphabets. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Radio Canada Big works

News and programme headlines

Tight spacing and tall lowercase pack a headline densely, in line with the broadcaster the family is named for.

On-screen titles and lower thirds

Weights from Regular to Bold separate a name from a role or a programme from its time slot.

Brand systems that start at Regular

Four upright weights and four italics give a compact palette for logos, slogans and campaign lines.

French and English communication

Latin Extended coverage handles French accents and ligatures alongside English in bilingual material.

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 Radio Canada Big

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 Radio Canada Big 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: "Radio Canada Big";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RadioCanadaBig-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Radio Canada Big";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RadioCanadaBig-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Radio Canada Big", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

No weights below Regular

The axis begins at 400 and ends at 700. Light and black cuts are outside its range.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate variable files. Static instances are available from the official source.

Latin subsets only

Radio Canada Big covers Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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