Crimson Pro from Google Fonts

Crimson Pro

is a variable font

for book and digital production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces.

Contemporary and classic, Crimson Pro comes in eight pre-defined weights from Extra light to Black, in Roman and Italic.

Additional Credits

Google:
Dave Crossland, Irin Kim, & Paula Ashton.

Type specimen site:
Amélie Lamont

Crimson Pro

The Benefits of
Crimson Pro & Variable Fonts

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Benefits of Variable Fonts

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Variable fonts are the latest in the evolution of fonts.

While Crimson Pro only has a variable Weight (wght) axis currently, a variable font can have other axes like, Width (wdth), Slant (slnt), Italic (ital), and Optical size (opsz).

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These axes allow designers greater flexibility to create and customize their own font instances for aesthetic and layout flexibility.

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Easy on the eyes

Crimson Pro’s cap height gives it better proportions and less visual noise, making it easier to read.

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With large counters and apertures, readers can easily recognize different characters at smaller sizes.

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With unlimited options along this axis, designers can tweak Crimson Pro to get the exact look and feel they want. They can create custom styles, name them, and save those instances to use throughout the design.

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Looking to use Crimson Pro in your language?

Preview

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Chapter II

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). “Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-by, feet! Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.”

Just at this moment her head struck against the roof of the hall; in fact, she was now rather more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever. She sat down and began to cry again.

write (ˈrīt)

verb
  1. to form (characters, symbols, etc.) on a surface with an instrument (such as a pen).
  2. to set down in writing.
  3. to make a permanent impression of.
  4. to communicate with in writing.

The Crimson Pro Daily

No.53210
Thursday, January 18, 2020
$3.00
Genius, Genocide Denier Or Both
By ALEX MARSHALL and CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
Peter Handke, the Austrian author who was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has been accused of falsifying history and praising war criminals.
Up for Sale: Pop Culture Mementos
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
Mad Tea

Write a book

About a dog and her ball, who get stuck in a mystical vortex full of daemons and panthers.

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Overview

This is a book about a dog and her ball, who get stuck in a mystical vortex full of daemons and panthers.

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Doc: Spunky, pixie dream girl. Loves to bark orders.

Ballerina: Born a basketball, dreams of becoming a wrecking ball.

Chapter One

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.

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Jacques Le Bailley

Jacques is a senior type designer, living in The Hague. He started his own foundry Baron von Fonthausen in 2009, and has been dedicated to type design ever since. After graduating from the KABK and an apprenticeship at Linotype GmBH, he worked in Berlin and The Hague as Graphic Designer for several years, and then for many years at one of the most prestigious Dutch foundries, The Enschedé Type Foundry. He has also been a tutor at the WdKA art academy of Rotterdam and St. Joost Art Academy of Den Bosch. He mixes personal type projects with contract work for foundries like Monotype, Bold Monday and Google, and every now and then he does custom projects for several branding agencies.

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Sebastian Kosch

Sebastian is a software engineer and researcher with a weakness for good typography. He currently lives in Toronto. He sketched the first version of Crimson in 2009, before Google Fonts launched. He was a freshman engineering student at the time, and drawing letters was more fun than studying for his calculus exams.