Turret Road

Try Turret Road

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Turret Road ExtraLight
• Light 300Turret Road Light
• Regular 400Turret Road Regular
• Medium 500Turret Road Medium
• Bold 700Turret Road Bold
• ExtraBold 800Turret Road ExtraBold

About Turret Road

Turret Road is a geometric sans serif built from straight lines with corners clipped at an angle instead of rounded. Stroke thickness hardly varies, the lowercase is tall, and several letters depart from convention: in the specimen M, N and W are formed from joined arches, the capital T has a curved left arm, and the zero and O are squared boxes. The official notes also mention playful diacritics. Six upright weights are provided: ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, Bold 700 and ExtraBold 800. There are no italics and no variable font. Each file holds 427 glyphs covering the Latin and Latin Extended sets. The designer listed is Dale Sattler, while the name table credits Noponies; the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Turret Road works

Science-fiction titles

Boxed bowls and clipped corners give film, book and game titles a machined, engineered look.

Game menus and HUD labels

Even strokes and a tall lowercase keep short labels legible, and six weights separate headings from values.

Technology wordmarks

The arch-built M, N and W and the curved-arm T make a short name distinctive in a logo.

Event and music posters

ExtraLight set very large contrasts with ExtraBold for dates and line-ups in the same geometry.

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

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 Turret Road

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 Turret Road 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: "Turret Road";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TurretRoad-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Turret Road";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TurretRoad-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Turret Road";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TurretRoad-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Turret Road";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TurretRoad-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Turret Road 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=Turret+Road:wght@200;300;400;500;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No 600 weight

The steps are 200, 300, 400, 500, 700 and 800; SemiBold is not part of the family.

Unusual letter shapes

M, N, W and T do not follow standard construction, which slows reading in long passages.

No italics

All six fonts are upright.

Two names in the credits

Dale Sattler is listed as designer and the font files name Noponies as designer and manufacturer.

FAQs

Collections with Turret Road

• Futuristic display fonts for sci-fi titles and logos

  Wide, squared and constructed display faces for science-fiction titles, technology logos, album art and game branding.

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