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Overpass
Overpass is a geometric sans-serif digital typeface, derived from Highway Gothic, but instead with a focus on usage as a webfont on digital screens for user interfaces and websites.
About Overpass
Overpass is a geometric sans-serif digital typeface, derived from Highway Gothic, but instead with a focus on usage as a webfont on digital screens for user interfaces and websites. It was designed by Delve Withrington with Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin, Alan Dague-Greene, and Aaron Bell between 2011–2021. Overpass comprises 18 variants: 9 font weights and corrected obliques for each weight. The Overpass typeface was commissioned by Red Hat exclusively for use in their software for UI elements. At that time, the commercial typeface Interstate was Red Hat's corporate typeface, but its lack of availability as a web font and the time it took to generate new images with each new update of their software were the motivators to commission Overpass.
From the Wikipedia article “Overpass (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Overpass 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.
Free alternatives on Google Fonts
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q25203361 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).