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Pensum Pro
A typeface for text, text and nothing but text. A pure monster, straight and plain.
Tschaikowsky’s
Schanzenviertel

Pensum is a typeface for text, text and nothing but text. A pure monster, straight and plain, it will reliably set word after word, line after line and paragraph after paragraph.

Sometimes a spark of the sexy, curvy and sharply ink-trapped Italic will sneak into proceedings but the plain workhorse will keep on setting text. Deep inside, some sharp details are hidden and some brushy and smooth shapes lurk, waiting to reveal themselves in large sizes.

But seriously... Pensum, the brush and broad-nib inspired font comes with nine weights from Thin to Black along with matched Italics. The strong serifs combined with the low contrast make it excellent for long text, whether in books or magazines. Pensum’s robust in even smaller sizes, where its ink-traps and that finely balanced contrast can work their magic — and those same details make it impressive in headlines or large Italic quotes. Its extremely thin styles can give a stylish and fashionable look, while the strong Black weights are great for the rough and tumble of mountain sports.

With more than a thousand glyphs and lots of OpenType features, Pensum can fulfil every typographic need. For lovers of book typography, the small caps are wider than the caps and you will find punctuation in case and small-cap sensitive variations. Pensum’s broad Latin language support gives a wide range of flexibility for Latin language support.

Designed by
Nils Thomsen
in 2016
Typographica’s Favorite
Was honoured in Typographica’s Favorite Typefaces of 2016
Specs
Providing 1078 glyphs, 18 styles and 9 weights
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SerifRegularBody TextInterfaceIdentityPublishingAccessibilityLatinCleanExpressiveElegantVariable FontItalicsSmall CapsSuper FamilyLigatures
Related Typefaces
Pensum Display, Pensum Sans, Pensum Stencil, Meret

Styles

  • Thin
  • Thin Italic
  • Extra Light
  • Extra Light Italic
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Book
  • Book Italic
  • Medium
  • Medium Italic
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Extra Bold
  • Extra Bold Italic
  • Black
  • Black Italic
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Caps to Small Caps, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Discretionary Ligatures, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Small Capitals, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrows 1, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrows 2, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrows 3, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrows 4, Stylistic Set: Black Circled Figures, Stylistic Set: Circled Figures, Stylistic Set: Contextual Alternates Plus, Stylistic Set: Smart Typography, Stylistic Set: Tabular Width Set, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

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Know-How