Charlie

About

Charlie is an affable slab serif typeface for use in print and exhibition settings. Its design is restrained in approach, yet the narrow proportions, high x-height and sharp, distinct details make it unique among other slab serifs.

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In its most general sense, the term ‘world’ refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a ‘plurality of worlds’. Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In scientific cosmology the world or universe is commonly defined as ’the totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be’. Theories of modality, on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the ‘horizon of all horizons’. In philosophy of mind, the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes the world in relation to God, for example, as God’s creation, as identical to God or as the two being interdependent. In religions, there is often a tendency to downgrade the material or sensory world in favor of a spiritual world to be sought through religious practice. A comprehensive representation of the world and our place in it, as is commonly found in religions, is known as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or creation of the world while eschatology refers to the science or doctrine of the last things or of the end of the world.
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In its most general sense, the term ‘world’ refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a ‘plurality of worlds’. Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In scientific cosmology the world or universe is commonly defined as ’the totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be’. Theories of modality, on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the ‘horizon of all horizons’. In philosophy of mind, the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes the world in relation to God, for example, as God’s creation, as identical to God or as the two being interdependent. In religions, there is often a tendency to downgrade the material or sensory world in favor of a spiritual world to be sought through religious practice. A comprehensive representation of the world and our place in it, as is commonly found in religions, is known as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or creation of the world while eschatology refers to the science or doctrine of the last things or of the end of the world.
Charlie In Use

Design concept

Charlie is a slab serif typeface created for use in way-finding and exhibition settings. An affable slab serif, Charlie’s personality is clear and direct. Its design is restrained in approach, yet with narrow proportions, high x-height and sharp finishing details, it is unique among other slab serifs. Charlie’s broad range – from open hairlines to robust black weights – offers a number of options that lend the typeface versatility in use.

Previously named Foxtrot, the typeface began as Ross’ thesis project at the Type and Media master’s course in The Hague and developed over the next two years into a full typeface. Read more about development of the Charlie typeface ▸

Charlie typeface, design concept

Proportional weights

Each of Charlie’s lighter weights – from Hairline to Regular – are available in two optical sizes, one heavier than the other. Unlike other typefaces with optical sizes, Charlie’s exist to match each other at specific intervals of display sizes.

The eight optical weights form a proportional system that allows for varying type size while maintaining even stroke width. Try it out directly in the Charlie Weight Calculator. In this way, Charlie enables subtle shifts in the hierarchy of information while remaining visually harmonious.

Charlie typeface, Proportional Weights

Symbols

Charlie contains a series of arrow sets and symbols relevant for way-finding signage, information systems and exhibition settings, as well as a series for broader use.

Charlie typeface, symbols

  • AwardsGraphex Award 2010
  • Released2010

Cyrillic

  • Abaza
  • Adyghe
  • Altai
  • Avar
  • Azeri (Cyrillic)
  • Azeri (Latin)
  • Balkar
  • Bashkir
  • Belarusian
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Buryat
  • Chechen
  • Chuvash
  • Crimean Tatar
  • Dargin
  • Dungan
  • Evenki
  • Gagauz
  • Ingush
  • Kabardian
  • Kalmyk
  • Karakalpak
  • Kazakh
  • Khakas
  • Kirghyz
  • Komi
  • Komi
  • Koryak
  • Kumyk
  • Lak
  • Lezgian
  • Macedonian
  • Manci
  • Mansi
  • Mari
  • Mongolian
  • Montenegrin
  • Mordvin (Erzya)
  • Mordvin (Moksha)
  • Muslim Tat, Latin
  • Nanai
  • Nenets
  • Nogai
  • Ossetic
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Rusyn
  • Selkup
  • Serbian
  • Shor
  • Tabasaran
  • Tajik (Cyrillic)
  • Talysh, Latin
  • Tatar
  • Tsakhur
  • Turkmen
  • Tuva
  • Tuvan
  • Udmurt
  • Uighur
  • Ukrainian
  • Uzbek
  • Western Mari
  • Yakut

Greek

  • Greek (modern)

Latin

  • Abua
  • Achinese
  • Achuar-Shiwiar
  • Acoli
  • Adara
  • Afar
  • Afrikaans
  • Ahtna
  • Alago
  • Albanian
  • Alekano
  • Aleut
  • Anaang
  • Ao Naga
  • Arabic, Chadian Spoken
  • Aragonese
  • Aromanian
  • Asturian
  • Asu
  • Awak
  • Aymara
  • Azeri (Cyrillic)
  • Azeri (Latin)
  • Baka
  • Balinese
  • Banda, West Central
  • Bangwinji
  • Bapuku
  • Basque
  • Batak Toba
  • Bedawiyet
  • Bekwarra
  • Bemba
  • Bena
  • Bench
  • Benga
  • Bete-Bendi
  • Bikol
  • Bilen
  • Bini
  • Bislama
  • Blackfoot
  • Bokobaru
  • Bosnian
  • Breton
  • Buginese
  • C’Lela
  • Cahungwarya
  • Catalan
  • Cebuano
  • Chamorro
  • Cheyenne
  • Chichewa
  • Chiduruma
  • Chiga
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua
  • Chokwe
  • Chuukese
  • Colognian
  • Comorian, Latin
  • Cornish
  • Corsican
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dawro
  • Delaware
  • Dikaka
  • Dogon, Toro So
  • Dutch
  • Ebira
  • Efik
  • Emai-Iuleha-Ora
  • Embu
  • English
  • Esperanto
  • Estonian
  • Ezaa
  • Faroese
  • Fijian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Frisian
  • Friulian
  • Fuliiru
  • Gagauz
  • Galician
  • Gamo
  • Ganda
  • Gbaya (Sudan)
  • German
  • Gheg Albanian
  • Gikuyu
  • Gofa
  • Gourmanchéma
  • Greenlandic
  • Guaraní
  • Gungu
  • Gusii
  • Gwich’in
  • Gyele
  • Haitian
  • Hanga
  • Hassaniyya
  • Hiligaynon
  • Hmong
  • Hopi
  • Hungarian
  • Hyam
  • Ibani
  • Icelandic
  • Igbo
  • Igede
  • Ika
  • Ikwere
  • Ikwo
  • Iloko
  • Indonesian
  • Innu
  • Interlingua
  • Irish Gaelic
  • Italian
  • Ivbie North-Okpela-Arhe
  • Izere
  • Izii
  • Jamaican Creole English
  • Javanese
  • Jibu
  • Jola-Fonyi
  • Jola-Kasa
  • Jukun Takum
  • Kabuverdianu
  • Kaingang
  • Kalenjin
  • Kamba
  • Karelian
  • Kashubian
  • Khasi
  • Kimbundu
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Kiribati
  • Kirike
  • Kirmanjki
  • Kirundi
  • Kombe
  • Kongo
  • Kunama
  • Kurdish
  • Kuria
  • Kutep
  • Kutu
  • Kwanyama
  • Kwere
  • Kʼicheʼ
  • Lakota
  • Lamba
  • Latgalian
  • Latin
  • Latvian
  • Lele
  • Ligurian
  • Lithuanian
  • Lokaa
  • Lombard
  • Longuda
  • Low German
  • Lower Sorbian
  • Lozi
  • Luba-Kasai
  • Luguru
  • Luo
  • Luwo
  • Luxemburgish
  • Luyia
  • Ma’di
  • Machame
  • Madurese
  • Makhuwa
  • Makhuwa-Meetto
  • Makonde
  • Malagasy
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Mambila, Nigeria
  • Mandinka
  • Mandjak
  • Mankanya
  • Manx
  • Māori
  • Mapuche
  • Marshallese
  • Mbembe, Cross River
  • Meru
  • Minangkabau
  • Mirandese
  • Mohawk
  • Montenegrin
  • Morisyen
  • Muscogee
  • Muslim Tat, Latin
  • Mwani
  • Nara
  • Navajo
  • Ndamba
  • Ndebele (Northern)
  • Ndebele (Southern)
  • Ndonga
  • Neapolitan
  • Ngindo
  • Ngulu
  • Nigerian Pidgin
  • Niuean
  • Norwegian
  • Novial
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako
  • Nyanja
  • Nyankole
  • Obolo
  • Occitan
  • Ogbah
  • Oromo
  • Palauan
  • Pampanga
  • Papiamento
  • Pedi
  • Picard
  • Piedmontese
  • Pogolo
  • Pohnpeian
  • Pökoot
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punu
  • Quechua
  • Rarotongan
  • Rendille
  • Reshe
  • Rhaeto-Romanic
  • Rigwe
  • Rinconada Bikol
  • Romani
  • Romanian
  • Rombo
  • Rwa
  • Samburu
  • Sámi (Inari)
  • Sámi (Lule)
  • Sámi (Northern)
  • Sámi (Southern)
  • Samoan
  • Sango
  • Sangu
  • Sardinian
  • Sassarese Sardinian
  • Scots
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Sena
  • Serbian
  • Seri
  • Seychelles Creole
  • Shambala
  • Sheko
  • Shona
  • Sicilian
  • Silesian
  • Slovak
  • Slovene
  • Soga
  • Somali (Latin)
  • Soninke
  • Sotho
  • Spanish
  • Sranan Tongo
  • Suba
  • Sudanese Arabic
  • Sundanese
  • Swahili
  • Swahili, Congo
  • Swati
  • Swedish
  • Swiss German
  • Tahitian
  • Taita
  • Takwane
  • Talinga-Bwisi
  • Talysh, Latin
  • Tedim Chin
  • Tetum
  • Tiv
  • Tok Pisin
  • Tokelauan
  • Toposa
  • Tsakhur
  • Tsonga
  • Tsuvadi
  • Tswana
  • Tula
  • Tumbuka
  • Turkish
  • Turkmen
  • Tuvalu
  • Uab Meto
  • Uighur
  • Umbundu
  • Upper Sorbian
  • ut-Hun
  • ut-Ma’in
  • Venetian
  • Veps
  • Vidunda
  • Vietnamese
  • Volapük
  • Võro
  • Vunjo
  • Walloon
  • Walser
  • Waray
  • Warlpiri
  • Wayuu
  • Welsh
  • Wendat
  • West Albay Bikol
  • Wolaytta
  • Wolof
  • Xavánte
  • Xhosa
  • Yao
  • Yapese
  • Yasa
  • Yoruba
  • Yucateco
  • Zande
  • Zapotec
  • Zayse
  • Zaza
  • Zigula
  • Zulu
  • Zuni

  • J
    J

    Shorter capital `J`

    ss01

    Charlie includes shorter version of the capital letter ‘J’ that sits on the baseline.
  • &
    &

    Alternative ampersand

    ss02

    Alternative and simpler version of the ampersand.
  • Triangular arrows

    ss03

    Alternative set of indication arrows.
  • Squared arrows

    ss04

    Alternative set of indication arrows.
  • Rounded arrows

    ss05

    Alternative set of indication arrows.
  • Ha
    Ha

    Small Caps

    smcp

    Most Typotheque fonts implement the Small Caps feature. In Adobe applications you can replace lower case letters with small caps using the keyboard shortcut (⌘ + ⇧ + H), or the OpenType menu.
  • Ha
    Ha

    All Small Capitals

    smcp + c2sc

    There are two methods of applying small capitals. The first one replaces only lower case letters with small caps. The second method, All Small Caps, also replaces capital letters with small caps. It also replaces regular quotation marks, exclamation points, question marks, slashes and usually also numerals with small caps variants.
  • (H:
    (H:

    Case Sensitive Forms

    case

    When the ‘change to caps’ function is applied from within an application (not when text is typed in caps) appropriate case-sensitive forms are automatically applied. Regular brackets, parenthesis, dashes and hyphens are replaced with their capital forms.
  • (1)
    (1)

    Circled numerals and arrows

    dlig

    The discretionary ligature feature creates real arrows when you type the combination -> (right arrow), <- (left arrow), -^ (up arrow) or ^- (down arrow). It also creates enclosed numerals when you type numerals inside parenthesis, and inverse enclosed numerals when you type numerals inside brackets. Discretionary ligatures are off by default in Adobe applications.
  • fi
    fi

    Standard Ligatures

    liga

    Standard ligatures are those which are designed to improve the readability of certain letter pairs. For example, when this feature is activated, typing ‘f’ and ‘i’ will automatically produce the ‘fi’ ligature. Using ligatures does not affect the spelling and hyphenation of your text in any way.
  • 19
    19

    Proportional Old-style Figures

    onum + pnum

    Typotheque fonts contain various styles of numerals within one font. Proportional Lining Figures come standard in all our headline and newspaper fonts. Their proportions are specifically designed to work well with capital letters (for example, in headlines). The proportional Old-style Figures feature changes standard figures to Old-style Figures which work well in running text, as they have the same proportions as lower case letters with their ascenders and descenders.
  • 19
    19

    Tabular Lining Figures

    lnum + tnum

    Tabular figures are for use in tables where numerals need to be aligned vertically. Tabular figures are available as a OpenType feature and have a fixed width in all weights. Typotheque fonts include both Lining and Old-style Tabular figures.
  • 19
    19

    Tabular Old-style Figures

    onum + tnum

    Tabular figures are for use in tables where numerals need to be aligned vertically. Tabular figures are available as a OpenType feature and have a fixed width in all weights. Typotheque fonts include both Lining and Old-style Tabular figures.
  • 2/9
    2/9

    Arbitrary Fractions

    frac

    Typotheque OpenType fonts already include a number of pre-designed diagonal fractions. The fraction feature allows you to create other fractions quickly and easily.
  • H1
    H1

    Superiors

    sups

    Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their superior alternates, which can be used for footnotes, formulas, etc. Superior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text.
  • H1
    H1

    Inferiors

    sinf

    Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their inferior alternates, used primarily for mathematical or chemical notation. Inferior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text