Rye

Try Rye

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rye Regular

About Rye

Rye is a decorated display typeface drawn after the wood type used on posters, and the official description says it carries the feeling of the American West. Each letter in the specimen has wide, curled serifs, a pointed spur halfway up the stem and a thin white inline that follows one side of the stroke. Contrast between thick and thin parts is moderate, and both upper and lower case are present. The source recommends medium to large sizes and notes that the font was made as web type. Rye is a single Regular style without bold or italic. Its 260 glyphs cover the basic Latin character set: English and Western European languages such as German, Spanish and Italian are complete, and French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ. Nicole Fally designed Rye, the copyright notice names Sorkin Type Co, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rye works

Western-themed posters

Spurred stems and curled serifs come straight from wood type posters, the model named in the official description.

Signs and menus for bars and grill restaurants

A name or a list of section titles in Rye sets a saloon-style tone without extra ornament.

Labels for bottles and jars

The inline cut and heavy serifs give a short product name the look of an old printed label.

Web headlines and banners

Rye was made as web type and is recommended for medium to large sizes, which covers page titles and promotional banners.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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 Rye

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Rye has a single Regular style. There is no bold or italic, and it is not a variable font.

Medium to large sizes

The inline and spurs are fine details. The official description recommends medium to large sizes, not small text.

Basic Latin only

The 260 glyphs cover the basic Latin set; the Latin Extended set is not complete. French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

FAQs

Collections with Rye

• Bold vintage fonts for poster design

  Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

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