Righteous

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Righteous Regular

About Righteous

Righteous is a display typeface with heavy, even strokes built on a grid. In the specimen the capital A has a round arch in place of a point, M and W are drawn as joined arches, the lowercase e has a slanted crossbar, and bowls are near-circles joined to straight stems. The official notes trace the idea to the all-capitals lettering on deco posters that the Hungarian artist Robert Berény made for Modiano; unlike that source, Righteous comes with a complete lowercase. The font has one Regular style, no italic, and is not a variable font. Its 372 glyphs are organised in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. Righteous is credited to Astigmatic, and the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Righteous works

Logos and wordmarks

The arched A, M and W make a short name distinctive when set in capitals.

Deco-style posters

The grid-based capitals come from deco poster lettering, so they suit event posters in that manner.

Music and podcast covers

Heavy even strokes keep a short title solid against a photo or a flat colour.

Headings in sentence case

The added lowercase lets subheads and buttons use mixed case, which the poster source could not offer.

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
• 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 Righteous

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Righteous has Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Unusual capitals

A, M and W are built from arches. Check that names containing those letters read as intended.

Latin character sets

The 372 glyphs are organised in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets.

FAQs

Collections with Righteous

• Fonts for logos and wordmarks

  Geometric, rounded, wide and classical open-license typefaces with enough character to carry a name on their own.

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