Author's note

Duro by Chris Coombes is a free techno display font with extremely tall, narrow letters and a spare mechanical profile. Repeated breaks interrupt the upright strokes, turning familiar forms into precise fragments. The overall weight remains strikingly light.

Its broken verticals echo circuit traces and schematic linework, a useful link for technology posters and electronic music graphics. Fashion branding can use the severe proportions to suggest an engineered, futuristic setting rather than a bulky industrial one. In game interfaces or science-fiction packaging, the letters can become part of a sleek coded panel pattern instead of serving only as ordinary labels.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright Chris Coombes 2011
Font family
Duro
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
FontStruct Duro
Full font name
Duro Regular
Name table version
Version 1.0
Postscript font name
Duro
Trademark notice
FontStruct is a trademark of FSI FontShop International GmbH
Manufacturer name
http://fontstruct.com
Designer
Chris Coombes
Description
Duro was built with FontStruct

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2012-12-18
Revision1
Glyph count56
Units per Em1024
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightUltra-bold
WidthExtra-expanded
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced