Sulphur Point

Try Sulphur Point

Weights and styles

• Light 300Sulphur Point Light
• Regular 400Sulphur Point Regular
• Bold 700Sulphur Point Bold

About Sulphur Point

Sulphur Point is a geometric sans serif that stays close to ruler-and-compass shapes: the o is nearly a full circle, the a is single-storey, and strokes keep an even thickness with few optical corrections. The lowercase is tall against short ascenders and descenders. In the specimen the capitals E, F and L are narrow beside the round O and Q, the r ends in a short hooked arm, and the y has a straight tail. The family has three styles, Light, Regular and Bold, without italics, and 382 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. The name refers to Sulphur Point in Tauranga, New Zealand; the official notes say the design grew out of a study of how the port and marina there are organised as space. Dale Sattler, working as Noponies, leads the project.

Where Sulphur Point works

Wordmarks and logotypes

Near-circular bowls and even strokes make a name read as a set of simple shapes.

Headlines with contrast in weight

Light at large sizes and Bold for key words come from the same three-weight family.

Short copy in brochures and websites

The tall lowercase and compact extenders let lines sit close together; the official notes state copy as an intended use.

Architecture and design portfolios

Geometry with minimal optical adjustment matches plans, diagrams and captions drawn with the same tools.

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
• 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 Sulphur Point

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

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

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

Things to know

No italics

Sulphur Point has upright styles only: Light, Regular and Bold.

Single-storey a

The lowercase a is a circle with a stem, close to the o and the d in shape, which matters in small text.

Static files

The family is supplied as three static font files; there is no variable version.

FAQs

Collections with Sulphur Point

• Geometric sans-serif fonts

  Sans-serif families built on circles, straight lines and even strokes, from 1920s-inspired designs to current brand typefaces.

Similar fonts

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