Radley

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Radley Regular Italic

About Radley

Radley is a serif typeface whose letterforms started as lettering carved into wood. According to the official notes, the shapes were sketched and cut directly with traditional chisels, then scanned, traced in FontForge, tidied and expanded into a full character set. That origin still shows in the specimen: sturdy stems, moderate contrast, softly bracketed serifs and round, generous bowls. Numerals are old-style figures, with a 1 that looks like a small capital I, so they blend into lowercase text. Radley offers a Regular and an Italic, two styles in one weight, and is not a variable font. The italic and wider Latin language coverage were added later by Vernon Adams, and Marc Foley finished that update in 2017. The 375 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Radley works

Book and chapter titles

The letters were first designed for titling, and their broad bowls and firm serifs hold a title at display sizes.

Short text with emphasis

A Regular with a true Italic covers an introduction, a caption or a short article where one weight is enough.

Plaques, menus and craft labels

Shapes that come from chisel-cut lettering suit work that refers to hand-made or engraved objects.

Pull quotes

Old-style figures and the Italic let a quotation with dates or numbers sit quietly inside a page.

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
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• 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 Radley

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

body {
  font-family: "Radley", serif;
}

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

Things to know

No bold

Radley has one weight. The two files are Regular and Italic; emphasis comes from the italic, size or colour.

Old-style numerals

The figures vary in height like lowercase letters, which is less suited to tables than lining figures.

Listed as Serif at the source

The official catalogue files Radley under Serif with a display classification; the official notes say it works for both titling and text.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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