Puritan
Designed By
Ben Weiner
4 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Puritan · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Puritan ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Minutes of the March committee
A Clear Hierarchy
Puritan · 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.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Minutes of the March committee
Italic400
Minutes of the March committee
Bold700
Minutes of the March committee
Bold Italic700
Minutes of the March committee
In October 1999 Ben Weiner entered Puritan in the 3rd International Type Design Contest, and by his own account it made no impact at all. He still put it out, and it has been on Google Fonts since 2010.
Weiner had started drawing letters in 1997, when he got his first computer, while studying on the Typography & Graphic Communication course at Reading University. A course project on sans serifs had him looking at grotesques like Monotype’s Series 215, made by punchcutters and draftsmen, and at Futura and Gill Sans, built with compasses and quills by rationalists and calligraphers. He was also taken with Ehrhardt, Monotype’s condensed revival of a 17th century face by Miklos Kis. Puritan was his answer to all of that, and partly a way, he admits, to own an interesting typeface without borrowing one from the department. He wrote it up as an essay in his final year.
It is a plain student-era family of 4: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, 244 characters, no OpenType extras. The italic takes up the same room on a line as the roman does, which makes swapping between them inside a paragraph painless.
Characters & Figures
244 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 236 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Puritan
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 111 KB ↓- Version
- 2.0a
- 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/puritan/puritan.css">
body {
font-family: 'Puritan', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Puritan Heading · Puritan 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.