Zen Dots

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Zen Dots Regular

About Zen Dots

Zen Dots is a display sans serif with very wide, heavy letters made of flat horizontals and rounded-rectangle bowls. The lowercase is almost as tall as the capitals, counters are narrow slots, and several glyphs have a futuristic twist in the specimen: the capital O has a bar across its middle, the zero is slashed and the G carries a long inner bar. The official notes say its futuristic look takes cues from science-fiction films of several eras, and that it is one of three Latin fonts by Yoshimichi Ohira in the Zen Fonts collection. The family has a single Regular style and is not a variable font. It holds 256 glyphs in the basic Latin subset and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Zen Dots works

Game and esports titles

Extended, heavy letters fill a banner or splash screen with a short name.

Technology and automotive logos

The barred O and squared bowls give a wordmark a dashboard-display character.

Sci-fi film and book graphics

The design takes its cues from science-fiction cinema, so it fits title cards and cover lines in that genre.

Product codes and model numbers

The slashed zero separates 0 from the barred O when letters and digits are mixed.

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

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 Zen Dots

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

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

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

Things to know

Very wide

Each letter takes a lot of horizontal room; long words need a small size or several lines.

The capital O has a bar

In all-caps settings the barred O can be read as another character, so check words that contain it.

One style, basic Latin

Zen Dots has Regular 400 only and lists just the Latin subset, with 256 glyphs.

FAQs

Collections with Zen Dots

• 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.

• Fonts inspired by film posters and title cards

  Display faces whose designers name a film poster, a cinema tradition or a title screen as their source, from 1930s scripts to action-movie slabs.

Similar fonts

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