Fraunces

Expressive "wonky" Old Style display serif with personality-driven axes.

Website Google Fonts

Font settings

Weight400

Optical size14

Softness0

Wonk0

These settings in CSS

.fraunces {
  font-family: "Fraunces", serif;
}

Waterfall

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

!@#$%&*()[]{}<>,.;:'"?/—–-+=

Paragraph

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. It shapes how words are read, felt and remembered — from wayfinding on a station platform to the small print of a contract. Good type disappears into reading; great type gives a voice to the text.

Install

Google Fonts

Embed in the <head> of your HTML

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght,SOFT,WONK@9..144,100..900,0..100,0..1&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Use Fraunces in CSS

/* <weight>: use a value from 100 to 900 */

.fraunces {
  font-family: "Fraunces", serif;
  font-optical-sizing: auto;
  font-weight: <weight>;
}

Fontsource

Install from npm

npm install @fontsource-variable/fraunces

Import once in your app entry

// Supports weights 100-900
import "@fontsource-variable/fraunces";

Use in CSS

body {
  font-family: "Fraunces Variable", serif;
}

Self-host

Google Fonts and Fontsource serve stripped builds — most OpenType features are removed. Self-hosting the original files is the only way to get the full feature set.

Download the font files from the website and serve them yourself:

Declare with @font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fraunces";
  src: url("/fonts/fraunces.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

Details

Designer: Phaedra Charles & Flavia Zimbardi
Foundry: Undercase Type
Licence: OFL
Format: Variable (opsz, wght, SOFT, WONK)
Variable axes: opsz, wght, SOFT, WONK