Rhodium Libre

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Font size

Character count: 464
Glyph count: 815
File size: 233kb
Designers: James Puckett
License: OFL 1.1

Description

Rhodium Libre was designed for use on screens at small sizes and the Latin and Devanagari scripts.

To that end, the design is generally uncomplicated and coarse, lacking the small details that are lost on screens; this also reduces the file size to improve latency when used as a web font.

The letters are designed slightly wide, with open counters, a large x-height in the Latin glyphs, and so on.

The Devanagari glyphs are the same height as the Latin capitals to allow them to stand alongside the oversized Latin lowercase.

Historical models for Rhodium’s design are Fortune (AKA Volta) by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum, and Rex by Intertype.

Matthew Carter’s Verdana provided insight into designing type for small sizes and adverse reading environments.

The Devanagari glyph set supports contemporary Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali.

The Latin glyph set supports Adobe’s Latin-3 character set.

This project is led by Dunwich Type Founders, a type foundry based in Denver, Colorado, USA, who design contemporary typeface families.

To contribute, see github.com/DunwichType/RhodiumLibre

Glyph script breakdown

Latn

38%

Zyyy

22%

Deva

22%

Mahj

Dogr

Kthi

Zinh

0.9%

Grek

0.9%

Other

10%

Average glyph size

slightly taller and slightly wider

average size(all fonts)

average size(this font)

110%

138%

Font fallback

CSS


    @font-face {
    
      
        font-family:RhodiumLibre-fallback;
      
      
        
          src:
        
        
          local("Times New Roman"),
        

        
          local("TimesNewRomanPSMT"),
        

        
          local("Times New Roman.ttf");
        
      
      
        
          size-adjust:
        
        
          124.35%;
        
      

      
        
          ascent-override:
        
        
          88.46%;
        
      

      
        
          descent-override:
        
        
          49.06%;
        
      

      
        
          line-gap-override:
        
        
          56.69%;
        
      
    
    }

    .rhodium_libre {
    
      
          font-family:
        
      "Rhodium Libre", 
      "RhodiumLibre-fallback", 
      serif; 
    
    }

Without adjustment

mox vomer proin

With adjustment

mox vomer proin

Font metrics

Units per em: 1000
X Height: 502
Cap Height: 680

Ascent: 1100
Descent: -610
Line Gap: 705

Font files/variations

RhodiumLibre-Regular

roman

400

464 characters

233kb