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Urge Text Extra Light

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Extra Light Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Light

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Light Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Regular

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Regular Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Semi Bold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Semi Bold Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Bold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Bold Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Black

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Black Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Extra Light

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Extra Light Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Light

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Light Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Regular

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Regular Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Semi Bold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Semi Bold Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Bold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Bold Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Black

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text Condensed Black Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Urge Text

It started with an italic, or to be more precise, half an italic. The slanted styles of Urge Text exhibit a certain bipolarity, the tops of glyphs having a standard italic form, the bottoms of glyphs being more Roman in their construction. This sturdy footing really locks the italics to the baseline, making them very legible while still being distinct from the uprights. The same bipolar approach didn’t work very well in upright styles, so the Romans are more toned down. Ranging from the almost monoline, Egyptian style light weights to higher contrast ‘Modern’ bolds, there is much potential for use in typographically demanding scenarios. The family consists of six weights, normal and condensed widths, all with italics, making a total of 24 fonts; it’s a highly usable text typeface with an array of OpenType features. All styles include small caps, multiple figure styles (proportional and tabular, oldstyle and lining, small cap proportional figures, numerators, denominators, superscript and subscript), standard ligatures, alternate forms (stylistic sets), automatic fractions, case sensitive forms, and a handy (perhaps!) ‘percent off’ ligature in the discretionary ligatures feature.

Designed by

  • Dave Rowland

Language Support

  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Fula
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

OpenType Features

  • Common Ligatures
  • Discretionary Ligatures
  • Fractions
  • Old Style Numerals
  • Small Capitals
  • Small Capitals for Capitals
  • Stylistic Sets
  • Subscript
  • Superscript
  • Tabular Numerals


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Uppercase Letter Latin

Uppercase Letter Greek

Lowercase Letter Latin

Lowercase Letter

Lowercase Letter Greek

Modifier Letter

Other Letter Latin

Decimal Number

Other Number

Connector Punctuation

Dash Punctuation

Close Punctuation

Final Punctuation

Initial Punctuation

Other Punctuation

Open Punctuation

Currency Symbol

Modifier Symbol

Math Symbol

Other Symbol

Ligatures

Stylistic Set 2

Stylistic Set 3

Oldstyle Figures

Tabular Figures

Scientific Inferiors

Superscript

Subscript

Numerators

Denominators

Small Capitals

Small Capitals from Capitals

Case-Sensitive Forms