Wendy One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Wendy One Regular

About Wendy One

Wendy One is a display typeface with very thick strokes, wide letters and small counters. The designer's notes explain that the alphabet started from a logotype of only seven letters, which Alejandro Inler extended into a full character set together with Julieta Ulanovsky. In the specimen the stems flare slightly and end in soft angled cuts, the crossbars sit low, and the lowercase is large in relation to the capitals, so a word forms a dense dark block. The family has a single style, named Regular despite its heaviness, with no italic, and it is not a variable font. It holds 230 glyphs, enough for English and Western European languages; the Latin Extended subset is not complete. Wendy One is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and the name Wendy is reserved.

Where Wendy One works

Logos and wordmarks

The design grew out of a logotype, and its thick, flared strokes make a short brand name read as a single shape.

Poster headlines

Dense letters with small counters hold a two- or three-word headline against photographs and flat colour.

Packaging fronts

A product name in Wendy One stays readable on a small label because the strokes are heavy and the lowercase is tall.

Stickers and badges

Wide, dark letters fill a round or rectangular badge with one or two words.

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 Wendy One

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular means heavy here

The only style is named Regular 400, but in the specimen it is as dark as a black weight. No lighter cut exists.

Basic Latin only

The font ships the Latin subset. Latin Extended is only partly present, and French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name Wendy for the original; modified versions need another name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Collections with Wendy One

• 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.

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