Michroma

Classification

Font Technology

Static font

1 weight, 1 style

How To Use Michroma

To use Michroma in your web project, either search Google Fonts and use their embed code or host the font on your server and use the CSS below. Note: fonts served by Google Fonts may be missing some OpenType features that are available in the original font.

Download Michroma

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Michroma';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>Michroma-Regular.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
}

Description

Michroma is a reworking and remodelling of the rounded-square sans genre that is closely associated with a 1960s feeling of the future. This is due to the popularity of Microgramma, designed by Aldo Novarese and Alessandro Buttiin in 1952, which pioneered the style; and the most famous typeface family of the genre that came 10 years later in Novarese’s Eurostile. Michroma has character widths and stem weights perfectly formed to fit today's digital screens; Vernon Adams has pioneered a design process with this font that produces excellent results on screen with no manual hinting involved. The Mai 2023 update features a bigger glyphset and some minor aesthetic modifications. To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/Michroma-font

Designer

Vernon Adams

Vernon practiced typeface design professionally from 2007 to 2014. A lifelong artist, during this period he eagerly explored designing type for the mobile/cloud era of computing. 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 (UK) in 2006, and passed away in California in 2014. Almost all his typefaces live on as open source Google Fonts, and his favorite projects were Oxygen Mono, Monda, and Bowlby One. Follow his story at

Copyright

OpenType Features

Fractions

Standard ligatures

Stylistic set 1

Stylistic set 2

Superscript

Related Fonts

Font Size

Michroma regular

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.

Arbitrary Fractions

diagonal-fractions

1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678

Fractions

default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1

1/4

1/2

3/4

Standard ligatures

font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1

Stylistic set 1:

ss01

default css
font-feature-settings: "ss01" 1

Stylistic set 2:

ss02

default css
font-feature-settings: "ss02" 1