Monostyle Grotesque with changing styles derived from crossword puzzles
About Swono
Evolving from the richness of handwritings taken out of crosswords, Swono is an uppercase-only monospaced family with various faces and a playful mood.
By collecting, examining and evaluating different sources of completed crossword puzzles, interesting letterforms and peculiarities of the handwritings came to light. These were then categorized, supplemented and unified. The results were then combined into a font family and can now be selected by defined stylesets — changing the cheerful base to a softer, more angular, more aggressive or more complex aesthetic.
Swono is a display typeface from head to toe. Its additional stylesets allow an extremely tight set despite accents or enable proportional spaces. And the 9 weights, over 300 supported latin languages and more than 2100 characters make the type family an effective tool for posters, branding or any expressive design task.
- ▸Released in 2023
- ▸Monostyle Grotesque
- ▸9 weights
- ▸5 different flavours
- ▸2125 Glyphs
Please note that this preview font only includes basic upper- and lowercase letters as well as standard figures. No kerning and OpenType features are included. Please see reference images or the specimen PDF for full functionality.
OpenType-Features
All styles of the Swono family come in 5 different visual flavours, accessible via stylesets. Besides that you get some handy and decorative features — lined alternates, tight punctuation, contextual alternates and more.
- ▸4 alternative Styles
- ▸Lined Alternates
- ▸Tight Punctuation Set
- ▸Proportional Space Set
- ▸Contextual Alternates
- ▸Circled and Squared Figures
- ▸Superior and Inferior Figures
- ▸Dynamic Fractions
- ▸Slashed Zero
Language Support
Thanks to the coverage of the Latin-Extended-A Unicode range, the Swono family supports almost all modern Latin languages. Actually, containing some additional accented glyphs, you can set text in 302 languages, including Vietnamese. If you still think your language isn’t supported, you can look up the full list below or in the specimen.
- Complete list of supported languages
Acheron • Achinese • Acholi • Achuar-Shiwiar • Afar • Afrikaans • Aguaruna • Alekano • Aleut • Amahuaca • Amarakaeri • Amis • Anaang • Andaandi, Dongolawi • Anuta • Ao Naga • Apinayé • Aragonese • Arbëreshë Albanian • Arvanitika Albanian • Asháninka • Ashéninka Perené • Asu (Tanzania) • Balinese • Bari • Basque • Batak Dairi • Batak Karo • Batak Mandailing • Batak Simalungun • Batak Toba • Bemba (Zambia) • Bena (Tanzania) • Bikol • Bini • Bislama • Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo • Bosnian • Breton • Buginese • Candoshi-Shapra • Caquinte • Cashibo-Cacataibo • Cashinahua • Catalan • Cebuano • Central Aymara • Central Kurdish • Central Nahuatl • Chachi • Chamorro • Chavacano • Chiga • Chiltepec Chinantec • Chokwe • Chuukese • Cimbrian • Cofán • Congo Swahili • Cook Islands Māori • Cornish • Corsican • Creek • Crimean Tatar • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dehu • Dimli • Dutch • Eastern Abnaki • Eastern Arrernte • Eastern Oromo • Efik • Embu • English • Ese Ejja • Faroese • Fijian • Filipino • Finnish • French • Friulian • Gagauz • Galician • Ganda • Ga’anda • German • Gheg Albanian • Gilbertese • Gooniyandi • Guadeloupean Creole French • Gusii • Haitian • Hani • Hiligaynon • Ho-Chunk • Hopi • Huastec • Hungarian • Icelandic • Iloko • Inari Sami • Indonesian • Irish • Istro Romanian • Italian • Ixcatlán Mazatec • Jamaican Creole English • Japanese • Javanese • Jola-Fonyi • K‘iche‘ • Kabuverdianu • Kaingang • Kala Lagaw Ya • Kalaallisut • Kalenjin • Kamba (Kenya) • Kaonde • Karelian • Kashubian • Kekchí • Kenzi, Mattokki • Khasi • Kikuyu • Kimbundu • Kinyarwanda • Kirmanjki • Kituba (DRC) • Kongo • Konzo • Kuanyama • Kven Finnish • Kölsch • Ladin • Ladino • Latgalian • Latin • Ligurian • Lithuanian • Lombard • Low German • Lower Sorbian • Luba-Lulua • Lule Sami • Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) • Luxembourgish • Macedo-Romanian • Makhuwa • Makhuwa-Meetto • Makonde • Makwe • Malagasy • Malaysian • Maltese • Mandinka • Mandjak • Mankanya • Manx • Maore Comorian • Maori • Mapudungun • Matsés • Mauritian Creole • Meriam Mir • Meru • Minangkabau • Mirandese • Mohawk • Montenegrin • Munsee • Murrinh-Patha • Mwani • Mískito • Naga Pidgin • Ndonga • Neapolitan • Ngazidja Comorian • Niuean • Nobiin • Nomatsiguenga • North Ndebele • Northern Kurdish • Northern Qiandong Miao • Northern Sami • Northern Uzbek • Norwegian • Nyanja • Nyankole • Occitan • Orma • Oroqen • Palauan • Paluan • Pampanga • Papiamento • Pedi • Picard • Pichis Ashéninka • Piemontese • Pijin • Pintupi-Luritja • Pohnpeian • Polish • Portuguese • Potawatomi • Páez • Quechua • Romanian • Romansh • Rotokas • Rundi • Rwa • Samburu • Samoan • Sango • Sangu (Tanzania) • Saramaccan • Sardinian • Scottish Gaelic • Sena • Seri • Seselwa Creole French • Shambala • Shawnee • Shipibo-Conibo • Shona • Shuar • Sicilian • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Soga • Somali • Soninke • South Ndebele • Southern Aymara • Southern Qiandong Miao • Southern Sami • Southern Sotho • Spanish • Sranan Tongo • Standard Estonian • Standard Latvian • Standard Malay • Sundanese • Swahili • Swati • Swedish • Swiss German • Tagalog • Tahitian • Taita • Tedim Chin • Tetum • Tetun Dili • Tiv • Toba • Tok Pisin • Tokelau • Tonga (Tonga Islands) • Tosk Albanian • Tsonga • Tswana • Tumbuka • Turkish • Turkmen • Tzeltal • Tzotzil • Uab Meto • Umbundu • Ume Sami • Upper Guinea Crioulo • Upper Sorbian • Venetian • Veps • Vietnamese • Võro • Walloon • Walser • Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa • Waorani • Waray (Philippines) • Warlpiri • Wayuu • Welsh • West Central Oromo • Western Abnaki • Western Frisian • Wik-Mungkan • Wiradjuri • Wolof • Xavánte • Xhosa • Yanesha‘ • Yao • Yapese • Yindjibarndi • Yucateco • Zulu • Záparo
Glyph Set
Swono comes with a massive amount of 2125 glyphs – covering the Latin Extended-A Unicode Range, 4 alternative styles, tight uppercase variants, various figure styles and a range of symbols.
To get an overview of the full glyph set, all styles, OpenType-Features and text samples you can download the specimen below.
Specimen & Trials
To get a complete overview of all features, the glyph set and range of cuts you can download the specimen. It is designed to work not only for information on screen, but to be printed out to get an impression of appearence in different sizes on paper.
You can also go straight to testing the typefaces in your favorite layout program: Our test fonts package can be downloaded for free and contains all of our previously published typefaces!