Overpass
Designed By
Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin
18 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Overpass · Regular
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18 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Overpass ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Clear Hierarchy
Overpass · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
18 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Thin Italic100
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Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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Black900
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Black Italic900
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A road sign alphabet has 1 job, to be read from a moving car, and nobody at the US Federal Highway Administration was thinking about a Thin Italic when they published the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices. Delve Fonts took those Highway Gothic letters as a starting point anyway and grew them into 18 styles.
That took work. The shapes were adjusted first so they would read at small sizes on a screen, and later for display sizes, and the lighter weights got the most of that attention.
The result keeps the plain, open, slightly mechanical feel of the signs and covers far more ground: 9 weights from 100 to 900, an italic for each, Cyrillic and Vietnamese, a slashed zero and tabular figures. Red Hat sponsored the project along with Google Fonts.
Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey and Thomas Jockin designed it. There is a monospaced sibling, Overpass Mono, for code.
Use it for signage, naturally. It would also run a dashboard or a long help page without complaint.
Characters & Figures
1,182 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Overpass
18 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 1.5 MB ↓- Version
- 4.000
- 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/overpass/overpass.css">
body {
font-family: 'Overpass', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
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Overpass Heading · Overpass Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.