Raleway Dots

Try Raleway Dots

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Raleway Dots Regular

About Raleway Dots

Raleway Dots is a display typeface that keeps the skeleton of the Raleway sans serif and replaces each stroke with a single row of evenly spaced dots. At the top of the specimen the dots are distinct; in the smaller alphabet rows they close up into a faint grey line, which is why the official notes point the font at posters and big headlines. The letter shapes are wide and round, with a W whose middle strokes cross. According to the same notes the font carries both lining and old-style numerals, discretionary as well as standard ligatures, and stylistic alternates of a more geometric kind. The family has one Regular style with 459 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended, and it is not a variable font. Matt McInerney, Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Brenda Gallo are credited, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Raleway Dots works

Poster titles

At very large sizes each dot is visible, so a word reads as a string of points, like a perforated or stitched line.

Event and exhibition graphics

A dotted title over a solid Raleway subtitle gives two textures from one letter skeleton.

Covers and section dividers

A single word set page-wide makes a light, airy opener that leaves the page mostly white.

Tracing-style lettering

Dotted outlines of letters and numerals can be printed large as guide shapes to draw over.

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 Raleway Dots

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

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

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

Things to know

Only works large

The dots merge at text sizes, as the lower rows of the specimen show. Plan for display sizes.

One style

There is a single Regular cut; the weights of the main Raleway family do not exist in dotted form.

OpenType extras

Old-style and lining numerals, ligatures and stylistic alternates are in the font; using them requires software with OpenType feature controls.

Large file for one style

Each dot is a separate outline, and the download is about 443 KB for a single style.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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