Neuton Extrabold by Brian M Zick is a free heavy serif font with broad, forceful shapes and sharply cut details. Its substantial strokes are punctuated by small wedge-like serifs, tight joins, and abrupt changes in width. Several letters have an almost carved, poster-print quality.
Poster design is its clearest setting, where the dense silhouettes can supply the blunt impact and familiar warmth of wood-type lettering without copying a historical face. That same robust voice fits event graphics, food packaging, and music merchandise, and it can give magazine covers and section openers a compact editorial signature for culture and arts publishing.
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Neuton is a serif font with a large height, short extenders, and a compact width.
Neuton is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (SIL OFL) and is free for commercial use.
The family is in continuing development and will include:
- Five weights, from Extralight to Extrabold
- Italic and smallcaps versions
- A cursive variant
- Extended-width versions
The family will comprise regular, italic, and cursive styles, each in five weights and with smallcaps. Two italic styles will be included: “italic” and “cursive.”
Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Brian M Zick (http://21326.info/), with Reserved Font Name 'Neuton'.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.