Wire One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Wire One Regular

About Wire One

Wire One is a display typeface made of very thin lines of constant thickness, set in tall, narrow letters. Alexei Vanyashin and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan of the Cyreal foundry built its characters from modular parts and gave them a hint of art nouveau. Seen large in the specimen, each stroke ends in a small dot, a detail the designers say gives headlines a sharp mood, and the curves of the O, a and e are narrow, straight-sided ovals. The designers advise loosening the letter-spacing at smaller sizes: 0.033em or more below 30 pixels, and 0.085em at 12 pixels. The family has one Regular style, with no bold or italic, and is not a variable font. Its 221 glyphs cover the basic Latin subset only. Wire One is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Wire One works

Tall magazine-style headlines

Narrow letters let a long title stand very large in a single column while the hairline strokes keep it light.

Fashion and beauty titles

Thin wire-like lines and dot terminals give a product or collection name a delicate outline.

Film and event title cards

On a dark background at display size, the dots at the stroke ends become visible as a deliberate detail.

Large numerals

Condensed hairline figures suit dates, prices and countdowns shown big.

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

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

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

Things to know

Hairline strokes

The lines are almost as thin as a font can draw, so Wire One needs size and strong contrast with its background.

Spacing advice from the designers

Cyreal recommends letter-spacing of at least 0.033em under 30 pixels and 0.085em at 12 pixels.

Basic Latin only

The 221 glyphs cover the Latin subset. French is complete except for the rare capital Ÿ, and Latin Extended is not included.

FAQs

Collections with Wire One

• Condensed fonts for headlines

  Narrow sans-serif and serif display fonts that set tall, compact headlines in limited width, from hairline to heavy.

• Thin and hairline fonts for light, airy headings

  Families with a Thin weight and single-style hairline display faces, for large headings, covers and minimal layouts.

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