Author's note

Legere, created by Gene Buban of FontStruct, is a free high-contrast serif with fine hairlines, sturdy upright strokes, broad curves, and crisp joins that look slightly carved. Rounded forms keep the letters open and fluid.

The sharp serifs and ink-like shapes echo the clean contours of fashion photography and engraved illustration, making the design useful for small-run fragrance packaging, gallery posters, and boutique branding aimed at design-conscious customers. In editorial design, its crisp details and oversized rounded forms give magazine mastheads and book covers a refined, slightly unconventional voice suited to thoughtful coverage of art, fashion, and independent literary publishing.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright Gene Buban 2010
Font family
Legere
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
FontStruct Legere
Full font name
Legere Regular
Name table version
Version 1.0
Postscript font name
Legere
Trademark notice
FontStruct is a trademark of FSI FontShop International GmbH
Manufacturer name
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com
Designer
Gene Buban
Description
Legere was built with FontStruct

Extended font information

Platforms supported

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

Font details

Created2010-07-21
Revision1
Glyph count68
Units per Em1024
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classTransitional serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular