Poster Fonts

By structure they are mixed: 91 display, 31 serif, 18 decorative, 18 handwriting and 35 from other categories, out of 193 in all. Display is the most common structure here, 91 fonts or 47% of the page, each of them also listed on Display Fonts. 12 of the 193 are in the free collection (Bellbottom Serif, Bitline Pixel and Brush Dry Sweep and 9 more), so a free account can download them as TTF; the other 181 download with Pro, Studio or a Font Pass. Weights are not where these poster fonts differ: all 193 come as one Regular style each. The tags they share most, after the page's own, are bold with 154, retro with 88, geometric with 71 and vintage with 54. Some are drawn on one letter structure: Depot Round Stencil, Foyer Inline and Garrison Stencil differ only in effect, slant or width, and 136 fonts here belong to such groups.

13 of the 98 fonts whose slant could be measured lean right, by a median of about 10°, while 85 stand upright. The steepest is Bouquet Script at about 21°; the other 95 have strokes too varied to give one angle. Across these poster fonts the narrowest is Brush Mural Condensed and the widest Monolith Slab: their average lowercase letters measure 48.1% and 115.1% of the cap height. For the poster fonts as a group the median is 83.4%, 4% wider than the 80.5% median of the whole library, so the same words take a longer line than in an average library font. The Latin x-height, one factor in the apparent size of lowercase, ranges from 46.2% to 100% of the cap height (median 73.3%); the library median is 72.2%, and 1 has lowercase as tall as the capitals. How dark a line of these poster fonts looks ranges from 13.4% ink coverage in Quirk Outline up to 61.1% in Display Retro Bubble; the median here, 38.7%, is 11% darker than the library's 34.8%. Of the 87 whose stroke contrast could be read from the o, 24 have strong thick-and-thin contrast, 43 keep close to one stroke weight in every direction and 2 are heavier across than down, a reversed contrast. 105 of the 193 carry an effect drawn into every letter: 3D extrusion on 26, outline on 17, inline on 12, military stencil on 9, drop shadow on 9, varsity outline on 9, paint drip on 8, pixel grid on 6, stripe on 4, Tuscan spur on 3 and snow cap on 2.

Beyond Latin, 20 fonts cover Hebrew, 16 cover Chinese, 11 cover Thai, 10 cover Arabic and Cyrillic, 9 cover Greek, Japanese kana and Korean Hangul and 8 cover Devanagari; the largest character set is Racer Slab's 3,966, the smallest 95. 188 of the 193 include accented Latin letters beyond A to Z; the other 5 stop at the basic alphabet, so check names with accents in the preview first. 141 of the 193 adjust spacing with kerning pairs (a median of 116); Static Ruin Grotesk has the most, 10,920. In the OpenType tables, 22 have OpenType ligatures or alternates; as for numbers, 5 have tabular figures that line up in columns of prices or scores.