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Tinos

Designed By

Steve Matteson

4 Styles Serif

The pleasure
of a well-set
page.

Tinos · Regular

Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.

4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

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TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Minutes of the annual meeting

A Page In Tinos

Tinos · 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.

4 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

Minutes of the annual meeting

Italic400

Minutes of the annual meeting

Bold700

Minutes of the annual meeting

Bold Italic700

Minutes of the annual meeting

Open a document built in Times New Roman on a machine that does not have it, swap in Tinos, and the lines should break where they broke before. That metric match is the reason Tinos exists. Steve Matteson drew it so each character takes the same width as its Times New Roman counterpart, which lets a file travel between systems without its pages reflowing.

He did not copy the shapes, though. Tinos was drawn to be easier on screen, and in May 2013 it got improved hinting to help with that further.

The 4 styles mirror the classic office set: Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic. Coverage is wide, the pan-European WGL character set plus Hebrew and Vietnamese, 2,303 characters in all, so a report in Greek or Russian keeps the same look as its English original. It first appeared on Google Fonts in November 2010.

Pick it when the layout is already fixed around Times and you need it to stay fixed, a legal form or a thesis template. For a new design with no history to honor, there are serifs with more to say.

Tinos type specimen with letters and figures
Tinos · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

2,303 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĬĭĮįİıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿŀŁłŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋŌōŎŏŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮůŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžſƀƁƂƃƄƅƆƇƈƉƊƋƌƍƎƏƐƑƒƓƔƕƖƗƘƙƚƛƜƝƞƟƠơƢƣƤƥƦƧƨƩƪƫƬƭƮƯưƱƲƳƴƵƶƷƸƹƺƻƼƽƾƿǀǁǂǃDŽDždžLJLjljNJNjnjǍǎǏǐǑǒǓ

The Font Files

Download
Tinos

4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 946 KB ↓
Version
1.23
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Read The Font License ↗

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/tinos/tinos.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Tinos', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Tinos 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.