Lekton

Monospace · by ISIA Urbino · 3 styles

Download

Lekton.zip · 261 KB · 4 files including OFL.txt

Typography profile

Weights
400 and 700
Italics
1 of 2 weights
Scripts
Latin (incl. Extended)
Best for
  • Aligned tables and figures
  • Latin Extended languages
Consider alternatives for
  • Scripts other than Latin
  • Hierarchies that need several weights
Characteristics
  • Monospaced
  • Typewriter
  • Stylistic sets
  • Stylistic alternates
  • Discretionary ligatures
  • Large glyph set

Styles

32px

  1. Lekton Regular 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  2. Lekton Regular 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  3. Lekton Italic 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  4. Lekton Italic 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  5. Lekton Bold 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  6. Lekton Bold 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

BPOZZ Design Note

Upstream describes Lekton's glyphs as 'trispaced' on a 250, 500 and 750 grid, yet every printable ASCII character in the shipped files takes one shared advance, so plain text and code align like any monospace. Only the post table's fixed-pitch flag is left unset.

BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.

About Lekton

About
A monospaced family designed by students and teachers at ISIA Urbino, inspired by typefaces on Olivetti typewriters. Its glyphs are "trispaced" on a modular 250/500/750 grid.
Designer
ISIA Urbino
Version
34.000
Category
Monospace
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1

You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).

Copyright (c) 2008-2010, Isia Urbino (http://www.isiaurbino.net)

Source
Google Fonts

Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository; the WOFF2 files used for the previews on this page are compressed from them. Added to Google Fonts 20 Dec 2010.

Upstream project: github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg.

Available styles
  • Regular 400
  • Italic 400
  • Bold 700
Available formats
  • TTF download
  • WOFF2 web preview
Character sets
Latin, Latin Extended