Judson
Designed By
Daniel Johnson
3 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Judson · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
3 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Judson ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Chapter 3, in which nobody sleeps
A Page In Judson
Judson · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
3 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Chapter 3, in which nobody sleeps
Italic400
Chapter 3, in which nobody sleeps
Bold700
Chapter 3, in which nobody sleeps
Ɓ, Ɗ, Ɛ, Ɔ and Ŋ all sit in Judson’s character set, and they are there on purpose. Daniel Johnson drew the face for African literacy, and his stated aim was to include every glyph and precomposed combination he knew of for the African languages written in Latin-derived alphabets.
Accents decide whether a font like this is usable. Johnson built OpenType tables to place the diacritics, stacked marks too, so a letter carrying 2 accents gets them one above the other in the right spot. He also took care that each character can be told apart from the next, in the italic as well, which is where look-alike shapes tend to drift together.
The Regular covers the International Phonetic Alphabet.
So a linguist can set a transcription and the prose explaining it in 1 face, and a publisher can print a primer in a language most fonts cannot spell. The family is small: Regular, Italic and Bold, with no Bold Italic, a gap Johnson pointed out himself. It came to Google Fonts in May 2011.
We would keep it on reading jobs, school books or a dictionary with pronunciations, where its care for the marks pays off. For big headlines you have only the Bold to work with, and that runs out fast.
Characters & Figures
852 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Judson
3 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 277 KB ↓- Version
- 20110429
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/judson/judson.css">
body {
font-family: 'Judson', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Judson Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.