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Francois One

Designed by Vernon Adams

About

Francois One is a reworking of many traditional sans serif gothic display typeface forms. These letterforms have been reshaped for use on the web, such as opening up the counters a little and optimizing the stems for use in bold display typography. Slanted stem terminals have been added to give a hint of playfulness to the design.

Designer

Vernon practiced typeface design from 2007 to 2014. A lifelong artist, during this time he eagerly explored designing type for the cloud-based era. His work spans all genres, from lively script faces to workhorse text families and operating system UI. Vernon graduated with an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and lives in California. His designs are mostly published as open source Google Fonts and his favorite projects include Oxygen Mono, Monda, and Bowlby One. Follow his story at www.sansoxygen.com.

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Choosing type

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.

Francois One - Google Fonts