Radio Canada
Designed By
Charles Daoud, Coppers and Brasses, Alexandre Saumier Demers, Jacques Le Bailly
10 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Radio Canada · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
10 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Radio Canada ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Clear Hierarchy
Radio Canada · 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.
10 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
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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In 2021 the Radio-Canada font went from covering 106 Latin languages to 317. Then in 2023 Jacques Le Bailly, who works under the name Baron von Fonthausen, added support for Indigenous languages, which for the house face of a national broadcaster in Canada was overdue and welcome.
The typeface goes back to 2017. Charles Daoud, a designer and typographer in Montreal, drew it with the studio Coppers and Brasses and with Alexandre Saumier Demers, as 1 information font for every platform CBC/Radio-Canada runs, on air and online. It is a humanist sans with some sharp angles cut into its curves, and the x-height was set with screen legibility and accessibility standards in mind, so it holds up in running text and in the small type of an app.
A year after it launched it picked up 3 awards in the font design categories of Communication Arts Typography, the Applied Arts Design Annual and the Grand Prix Grafika.
The family here is 5 weights, Light to Bold, each with an italic. Look in the OpenType menu too, because there are 8 stylistic sets, tabular and proportional figures, fractions and superscripts. For a newsroom that is the useful part: election tables in tabular figures, then the story in proportional ones, all in 1 typeface. We would stop at Bold for headlines and not miss a Black.
Characters & Figures
1,383 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Radio Canada
10 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 711 KB ↓- Version
- 2.104
- 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/radio-canada-2/radio-canada-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Radio Canada', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Radio Canada Heading · Radio Canada 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.