Tinos Bold is a free bold serif font with broad, commanding capitals and a firm newspaper-style profile. Pronounced thick-thin contrast, sturdy bracketed serifs, and compact lowercase forms give the lettering an authoritative but familiar texture.
Publishing is its strongest medium, particularly for magazine headlines, book covers, and pull quotes with weight but no novelty. The same formal shapes suit institutional branding and event posters with a literary or academic subject. Editorial headlines are the most convincing use, since the substantial strokes recall the gravity of traditional print.
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Font family
Tinos
Font subfamily
Bold
Unique subfamily identification
Ascender - Tinos Bold
Full font name
Tinos Bold
Name table version
Version 1.01
Postscript font name
Tinos-Bold
Trademark notice
Tinos is a trademark of Google and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Manufacturer name
Ascender Corporation
Designer
Steve Matteson
Description
Tinos was designed by Steve Matteson as an innovative, refreshing sans serif design that is metrically compatible with Times New Roman". Tinos offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across platforms.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2011-01-04
Revision1
Glyph count755
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleItalic
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureBold
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below: