Author's note

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.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Typeface © James Kass 1998-2005. Data © James Kass 1998-2005. All Rights Reserved.
Font family
Code2001
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Code2001
Full font name
Code2001
Name table version
Version 0.917
Postscript font name
Code2001
Trademark notice
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
Family classFreeform serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionMixed directional glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced