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Footlight

Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Malaysian type designer Ong Chong Wah in 1986 for the Monotype Corporation.

About Footlight

Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Malaysian type designer Ong Chong Wah in 1986 for the Monotype Corporation. Footlight is an irregular design. It is sold in weights from light to extra-bold with matching italics. It was originally designed as an italic font, a roman version was later made.

From the Wikipedia article “Footlight (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Footlight in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

Sources & data

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