Telex

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Telex Regular

About Telex

Telex is a humanist sans serif with low stroke contrast and wide, open letterforms. In the specimen the lowercase is broad, the openings of a, c, e and s stay clear, and stroke endings are cut at a slight angle, so the letters keep a trace of the pen. The official notes say the design started from shapes fitted to the pixel grid and grew into a general-purpose face for screen text. The family is a single Regular 400 file with no italic or bold, and it is not a variable font. Its 267 glyphs cover the basic Latin set; the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages are present. Andres Torresi designed Telex for HT Fonts, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Telex works

Interface copy on the web

Telex was conceived as a web font for normal text sizes; its wide proportions and open counters keep labels and short paragraphs clear on screen.

Captions and small print

Low stroke contrast leaves no thin hairlines to drop out when captions and footnotes are set small.

Short headings

At large sizes the angled stroke endings become visible and give a one-weight heading some character without ornament.

Western European sites

The 267 glyphs include the accents for French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and the Nordic languages, enough for a site written in one of them.

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 Telex

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

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

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

Things to know

One style only

Telex has Regular 400 and nothing else. With no italic or bold, emphasis has to come from size, colour or a second family.

Basic Latin coverage

The file is listed under the Latin subset only; its Latin Extended coverage was too thin to count. Check the character set before setting Central European languages in Telex.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name Telex, so a modified version has to be released under a different name.

FAQs

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