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''General purpose warm slab serif font''
''General purpose warm slab serif font''
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== Description ==
== Description ==


Crete Round is a warm slab serif providing a hint of softness to texts. It started as a tailored version of the original Crete fonts - http://www.type-together.com/Crete - created specially to serve as corporate typeface for the type design competition Letter2 - http://www.letter2.org/ . Crete Round is more independent from the original with modified terminals and serifs to create two new fonts that deliver a more contemporary and functional appearance. The tall x-height, low contrast and sturdy slabs prove to be surprisingly efficient for web use. This font supports 128 languages and has 416 glyphs.
Crete Round is a warm slab serif providing a hint of softness to texts. It started as a tailored version of the original Crete fonts - http://www.type-together.com/Crete - created specially to serve as corporate typeface for the type design competition Letter2 - http://www.letter2.org/ . Crete Round is more independent from the original with modified terminals and serifs to create two new fonts that deliver a more contemporary and functional appearance. The tall x-height, low contrast and sturdy slabs prove to be surprisingly efficient for web use. This font supports 128 languages and has 416 glyphs.
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== Characteristics ==
== Characteristics ==
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== Additional information ==
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Type Together upstream confirmed that the Crete Round fonts available from Font Squirrel are a modified version of their Crete fonts and are distributed under the OFL with their permission.
Type Together upstream confirmed that the Crete Round fonts available from Font Squirrel are a modified version of their Crete fonts and are distributed under the OFL with their permission.


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Latest revision as of 12:40, 21 November 2017

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General purpose warm slab serif font

Description

Crete Round is a warm slab serif providing a hint of softness to texts. It started as a tailored version of the original Crete fonts - http://www.type-together.com/Crete - created specially to serve as corporate typeface for the type design competition Letter2 - http://www.letter2.org/ . Crete Round is more independent from the original with modified terminals and serifs to create two new fonts that deliver a more contemporary and functional appearance. The tall x-height, low contrast and sturdy slabs prove to be surprisingly efficient for web use. This font supports 128 languages and has 416 glyphs.

Characteristics

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/crete-round OTF OFL 1.1 1397775 fontsquirrel-crete-round-fonts fontsquirrel-crete-round-fonts


Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif Other R B I BI Other Latin Greek Cyrillic Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
X X X X

Caveats

  1. None known.

Additional information

Type Together upstream confirmed that the Crete Round fonts available from Font Squirrel are a modified version of their Crete fonts and are distributed under the OFL with their permission.


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