Licht, a soft serif typeface
Licht 300
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Soft serifs.Clear light.
Licht is a soft serif with round ball terminals, bracketed serifs and the gentle stress of a broad pen. Its letters are swept with an oval nib, then finished by hand.
173glyphs
Capitals, lowercase, figures, punctuation and accented letters.
203languages
Full alphabets from German, Italian and Portuguese to Swahili, Tagalog and Indonesian.
1weight
Light 300 today, with more of the family to come.
Soft where it can be.Precise where it must be.
Ball terminal
Arms and hooks end in a round, weighted ball instead of a cut.
Bracketed serif
Serifs grow out of the stem through a curved bracket, more than twice as wide as the stem.
Two-storey g
An upper bowl and a lower loop, joined by a link and finished with a small ear.
Oblique stress
Curves thin at the upper left and lower right, as if drawn by a pen held at 14°.
Swept,then shaped.
Glyph
- Lines
- Nib
- Hand
- Ink
Every letter starts as plain Bézier curves along its middle. They carry the rhythm of the letter, not its weight.
- Swept strokes
- 1
- Drawn by hand
- 0
- Nib angle
- 14°
- Nib ratio
- 1.78 : 1
- Stem
- 78 units
- Hairline
- 48 units
Every glyph,up close.
173 glyphs: capitals, lowercase, figures, punctuation and accented letters for 203 languages. Use the arrow keys to move through them.
Set it inyour own words.
Click the line below and write your own. Change the size, spacing and leading, and read the guides against every line.
Click the text to write your own · guides show baseline, x-height and cap height
Sheets fromthe light table.
Detail A
Q · U+0051 · the tail · scale 4 : 1
Take Lichtfor a spin.
Edition 0.500. A desktop font and a webfont, both built from the same drawings.
@font-face {
font-family: "Licht";
src: url("/fonts/Licht-300.woff2") format("woff2");
font-weight: 300;
font-display: swap;
}
h1, h2, .display {
font-family: "Licht", Georgia, serif;
font-weight: 300;
}Specifications
- Version
- 0.500
- Weights
- 300
- Glyphs
- 173
- Languages
- 203
- Formats
- TTF, WOFF2
- License
- Personal use
Licht is free for personal, non-commercial use, portfolios included. For client work, products or anything that earns money, ask first. Read the full license. 300 is the only weight so far.