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Fraunces

Fraunces was designed by Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi at Undercase Type and released in 2020. It is a variable font with axes for weight, optical size, and a distinctive "wonkiness" axis that controls the degree of soft, irregular stroke quality in the letterforms. This combination of optical sizing and the wonky axis gives Fraunces a range from tightly controlled display headlines at large sizes to expressive, character-rich text at intermediate sizes. The family covers nine weights with a full italic. Its contemporary personality and multi-axis variable design make it a standout choice for editorial identities, cultural publishing, and any context where a serif needs both typographic rigour and visual distinctiveness.

Preview

Variable display serif with a wonky axis.

Faces

  • Regular The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  • Italic The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  • Medium The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  • SemiBold The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  • Bold The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  • Bold Italic The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

How to use

CSS usage 
@import url("https://fonts.wayscloud.eu/fonts/fraunces/style.css");

body { font-family: "Fraunces", Georgia, serif; }

License

OFL-1.1
SIL Open Font License 1.1

Free to use, bundle, and redistribute, including in commercial products. Modifications require a different name if the font has a Reserved Font Name.

Contains a Reserved Font Name: modified versions must be released under a different name.

Bundled license text · Upstream

Source

Upstream: https://github.com/undercasetype/Fraunces · Version: latest