Lathgate

A condensed sans with wedge-cut ends for posters, book covers and titles, set in your own words before you buy.

Harbor Nine, 1951

Nobody saw the last boat

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Regular, one style, from $49.

219 characters and 1,704 kerning pairs, in OTF, TTF, WOFF and WOFF2.

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Lathgate at work

A paperback cover, a film title card, a fight night handbill and a rye whiskey label, set live in the trial font.

A dockside mystery

Harbor Nine

Nobody saw the last boat

Cold nights on the east pier

Thirty-five cents

A picture in six reels

Ten Cent Alibi

With the Union Hall Orchestra

1951

The Union Hall presents

Fight Night

Eight rounds and a late bus

Friday the fourth of March, nine o'clock

Doors at seven

Small batch rye

Dockhand

Smoke, pepper and rain

No. 9, 750 ml

Set it yourself

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In use

See Lathgate on a paperback cover, a fight poster and a book jacket.

Lathgate fight poster reading Fight Night Friday in black on white

Lathgate book jacket for A Long Way to the River in white on black

Lathgate paperback cover titled Harbor Nine in white on red

From display to caption

Sizes from 96 down to 14 pixels. As the size drops the wedge cuts go first, so it wants a title, not a paragraph.

96 pxThe last boat

72 pxThe last boat

52 pxThe last boat

36 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

24 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

18 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

14 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

Character set

This grid shows all 219 encoded characters in the retail font. The full font is not loaded on this page.

Grid of all 219 encoded Lathgate characters with Unicode labels

What’s in the box

Uses: posters, paperback and book covers, film and title cards, headlines, labels and packaging.

Characters	219 encoded characters.
Glyphs	235 exported glyphs.
Kerning	1,704 kerning pairs.
OpenType features	Kerning.
Character set	Basic Latin with Western European accents
Version	Version 1.000
Licensed files	OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2.
Free trial files	TTF.
License use	Choose a License. Use the included files within its terms.
Free trial	Request the Trial Font. Personal, non-commercial evaluation.
Refunds	Fix or Refund Policy
Support	Contact Support

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Desktop Install and use the desktop fonts to make artwork, documents, logos, print, and static images. Covers up to 5 people. $49 Desktop and Starter Web Everything in the desktop tier, plus self‑hosted web fonts on sites you or your client own. The pageview allowance is the total across every site you serve the fonts from, not a separate allowance for each site. Covers up to 5 people and up to 250,000 pageviews a month. $99 Small Studio Desktop and Starter Web for a larger team: desktop fonts, plus self‑hosted web fonts on sites you or your clients own. E-publications and apps take their own license. The pageview allowance is the total across every site you serve the fonts from, not a separate allowance for each site. Covers up to 20 people and up to 1,000,000 pageviews a month. $249 E-Publication Everything in the desktop tier, plus embedding the fonts in one e-publication title you sell or give away: an ebook, a magazine with all its issues, or an interactive PDF. A PDF sent to a client or printer is ordinary document use, and every tier covers it. Covers up to 5 people and one e-publication title. $99 App Everything in the desktop tier, plus embedding the fonts in one app you distribute, games included, with its updates on every platform it ships on. A web app that sends the font files to browsers needs a web tier. Covers up to 5 people, one app, and up to 100,000 installs or monthly active users, whichever you track. $490 More Apps or Titles, Broadcast, OEM, and Large Organization More apps or titles under one agreement, apps past 100,000 installs or monthly active users, sites past 1,000,000 pageviews a month, apps where people type and export their own text in the fonts, hardware, broadcast, and more than 20 people at an organization of over 250 employees are quoted separately under their own written agreement. Ask at [email protected]. Quoted separately

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Selected: Desktop, $49.

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