Rowdies

Try Rowdies

Weights and styles

• Light 300Rowdies Light
• Regular 400Rowdies Regular
• Bold 700Rowdies Bold

About Rowdies

Rowdies is a Latin display typeface whose letters look hand-cut: in the specimen stems lean slightly off vertical, edges are chiselled at uneven angles, and the dots on i and j are diamonds. The official notes say the design takes its cue from the rough, tough world of Indian action cinema and was made for storytelling genres such as action, drama, adventure, thriller, noir and crime. The family has three weights, Light, Regular and Bold, supplied as static files; even Light is thick in the specimen, so the steps run from heavy to heavier. There is no italic, and Rowdies is not a variable font. Each font holds 635 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. Jaikishan Patel is the designer, and the family is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rowdies works

Film and series title cards

The design was made for action, thriller and crime stories, and its chiselled edges carry that tone in a title.

Event and gig posters

Bold 700 fills a poster headline with irregular, hand-cut shapes.

Thumbnails and social posts

Thick strokes in all three weights keep a few words solid over a video still.

Comic and game lettering

Diamond dots and uneven stems suit sound effects, chapter titles and menu headers.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Rowdies

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 Rowdies 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: "Rowdies";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rowdies-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rowdies";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rowdies-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rowdies";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rowdies-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Rowdies 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=Rowdies:wght@300;400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

All three weights are heavy

Light 300 is already thick in the specimen; the family has no thin text weight.

Static files

The package holds three separate TTF files and no variable version.

No italic

Rowdies has upright styles only.

FAQs

Collections with Rowdies

• Heavy fonts for thumbnails and social graphics

  Very heavy, compact display fonts that stay readable on a video thumbnail, a story or a feed image seen at a few centimeters wide.

Similar fonts

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