Code 2001, by James Kass, is a free high-contrast serif with a bookish, old-style flavor and a slightly literary calm. The letters pair broad, rounded forms with sharp little finishing cuts and a few soft curls, so the font feels cultured rather than severe.
That makes it a natural fit for magazine cover lines, publisher marks, museum branding, title cards, and elegant web headers where a free font needs some historical air without turning ornamental. It also works well for monograms and short pull quotes, because those tall, graceful strokes and rounded lowercase shapes give even brief words a composed, editorial tone.
Notice: Code2001 may be freely distributed, but you don't own it and may not alter it in any manner whatsoever.
Manufacturer name
James Kass
Designer
James Kass
Description
Code2001 is an experimental Plane 1 Unicode based font. The first 255 code points are as in ISO-8859-001. The balance of the code points are from Plane 1, a supplementary plane of Unicode.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
MicrosoftUnicode full repertoire
Font details
Created1998-01-23
Glyph count2944
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed