Rock Salt

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rock Salt Regular

About Rock Salt

Rock Salt is a handwriting typeface that keeps the rough edge of a felt-tip marker. According to the official notes it was hand-crafted with such markers for a personal look. The specimen shows capitals only: the uppercase keys give tall, sprawling letters, and the lowercase keys give a second, lower and wider set of capitals, so mixed-case typing produces a big-and-small capital rhythm. Outlines are slightly ragged, strokes overshoot their joins, and the letters lean and tilt irregularly. Lines also need a lot of vertical room because the capitals reach far above and below. Google Fonts credits Sideshow; the name table gives Font Diner, Inc DBA Sideshow as manufacturer and Squid as designer. There is one Regular style and no variable file. The 228 glyphs sit in the Latin subset and serve Western European languages and Estonian. The license is the Apache License 2.0.

Where Rock Salt works

Headings with a marker-pen feel

Ragged outlines make a title look written by hand on a poster, flyer or zine cover.

Labels and annotations on photos

A few words in the rough capitals read as a note scrawled across a picture or map.

Surf, skate and outdoor graphics

The leaning, uneven capitals suit stickers, T-shirts and event graphics with an informal voice.

Quotes on social posts

Typing in mixed case alternates tall and low capitals, which gives a short quote a lively texture.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Rock Salt

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

body {
  font-family: "Rock Salt", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Capitals in both cases

Rock Salt has no true lowercase. The lowercase keys produce a smaller alternative set of capitals.

Tall line height

Strokes extend well beyond the letter bodies, so tightly set lines will collide.

Western Latin only

Letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian are not in the font.

FAQs

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