Syncopate

Try Syncopate

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Syncopate Regular
• Bold 700Syncopate Bold

About Syncopate

Syncopate is a unicase display sans serif with a wide body and thin, even strokes. There is no conventional lowercase: some lowercase slots repeat the capital, while others, such as a, e and r, hold a small-letter shape enlarged to capital height, so a word sets as one band of equal-height letters. In the specimen the numerals share that height and the round letters are stretched into broad ovals. According to the official notes the face was drawn in 2010 for headlines and display work, and a Bold followed in April 2011. The family therefore has Regular 400 and Bold 700, without italics, and holds 370 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. The copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, trading as Astigmatic, and the fonts are licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Where Syncopate works

Wordmarks and logotypes

Typing in mixed case switches between capital shapes and enlarged small-letter shapes, so one short name can be set several ways from the same keys.

Wide headlines

Broad letters of one height fill the width of a banner or hero area with only a few words.

Title cards over images

The thin Regular reads as a light band of text across a photograph, and the Bold takes over where the background is busy.

Short labels and menu items

Tags and navigation items of a word or two keep a level top and bottom edge, because the unicase letters share one height.

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 Syncopate

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

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

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

Things to know

Unicase instead of mixed case

Lowercase keys produce either a repeated capital or a small-letter form scaled up to capital height. Conventional upper- and lowercase text cannot be set.

Regular and Bold only

The family consists of Regular 400 and Bold 700. There is no italic and no variable version.

The letters are wide

A line of Syncopate holds few characters for its point size, so long titles usually have to break across lines or be set small.

FAQs

Collections with Syncopate

• Fonts for logos and wordmarks

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

• Wide and extended fonts for headings and logos

  Extended sans-serif and display families whose broad letters give short words presence: for mastheads, wordmarks and section titles.

Similar fonts

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