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Custer™

by Font Bureau

Individual Styles from $40.00 USD

Complete family of 28 fonts: $924.00 USD

Custer Font Family was designed by David Berlow and published by Font Bureau. Custer contains 28 styles and family package options.

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Aa Glyphs
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Select style to display all glyphs:

Custer Display Regular ▲

Custer Display Regular

Custer Display Italic

Custer Display Medium

Custer Display Medium Italic

Custer Display Semi Bold

Custer Display Semi Bold Italic

Custer Display Bold

Custer Display Bold Italic

Custer Subhead Regular

Custer Subhead Italic

Custer Subhead Medium

Custer Subhead Medium Italic

Custer Subhead Semi Bold

Custer Subhead Semi Bold Italic

Custer Subhead Bold

Custer Subhead Bold Italic

Custer Text Regular

Custer Text Italic

Custer Text Medium

Custer Text Medium Italic

Custer Text Bold

Custer Text Bold Italic

Custer Small Regular

Custer Small Italic

Custer Small Medium

Custer Small Medium Italic

Custer Small Bold

Custer Small Bold Italic

Custer Display Regular - Glyph count:

This is a listing of all glyphs contained in the font, including OpenType variants that may only be accessible via OpenType-aware applications.

Each basic character (“A”) is followed by Unicode variants of the same character (Á, Ä…), then OpenType variants (small caps, alternates, ligatures…). This way you can see all the variations on a single character in one place.

Custer Complete Family

28 fonts

Best Value!

Per Style:

$33.00 USD

Pack of 28 styles:

$924.00 USD

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Custer Subhead Pack

8 fonts

Per Style:

$35.00 USD

Pack of 8 styles:

$280.00 USD

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Custer Display Pack

8 fonts

Per Style:

$35.00 USD

Pack of 8 styles:

$280.00 USD

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Custer Text Pack

6 fonts

Per Style:

$35.00 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$210.00 USD

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Custer Small Pack

6 fonts

Per Style:

$35.00 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$210.00 USD

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Licensing Options

You can use this font in any of the following places. Read the full EULA text for details about each license. If you have a usage in mind that's not covered by these licenses, contact us and we'll see what we can do.

Desktop: for use on a desktop workstation

For the most common uses, both personal and professional, for use in desktop applications with a font menu.

For example:

Install the font on your Mac OS X or Windows system
Use the font within desktop applications such as Microsoft Word, Mac Pages, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, etc.
Create and print documents, as well as static images (.jpeg, .tiff, .png)

Desktop licenses are based on the number of users of the fonts. You can change the number of users by clicking the quantity dropdown option on Buying Choices or Cart pages.

Please be sure to review the listing foundry's Desktop license agreement as some restrictions may apply—such as use in logos/trademarks, geographic restrictions (number of locations), and products that will be sold.

Custer Desktop EULA

Webfonts: for your website

Webfonts allow you to embed the font into a webpage using the @font-face rule, so paragraphs and headings of text can be styled as the webfont. You will be serving the webfont kit for your own site and linking it in the CSS.

Webfonts can be used on a single domain. Agencies responsible for multiple websites, for example web design agencies or hosting providers, may not share a single webfont license across multiple websites.

If the font file itself won't be embedded in the website (for example, when the font is used in a static graphic image such as a logo) you should purchase a Desktop license instead.

Most foundries on MyFonts offer their webfonts with the Annual license model. Click here to Learn more.

Custer WebFont EULA

App: for embedding in mobile applications

Select this license type when you are developing an app for iOS, Android, or Windows Phone, and you will be embedding the font file in your mobile application's code.

Custer App EULA

Digital Ad/Email: for use in HTML5 ads

You can use this type of license to embed fonts into digital ads, such as ads built using HTML5.

We'll supply a kit containing webfonts that can be used within digital ads, such as banner ads. This kit may be shared with third parties who are working on your behalf to produce the ad creatives, however you are wholly responsible for it.

HTML5 ads use webfonts, so why purchase a Digital Ads license rather than a Webfont license?

There are a few reasons, such as the Digital Ads EULA having terms that enable usage in digital ads and on advertising networks.

Digital advertisements also have different usage patterns compared to websites. Most websites generally have consistent pageviews month-to-month whereas advertising impressions can vary wildly month-to-month. Prices reflect this, making it much less expensive to use a Digital Ad license.

If you know the number of impressions the campaign requires, that amount can be ordered before the campaign begins. For campaigns where number impressions is unknown until the end of the campaign, you can true up at the end of each calendar month.

Custer Digital Ad/Email EULA

Electronic Doc: for embedding in e-text products

You can use an Electronic Doc license to embed the font in an electronic publication such as an eBook, eMagazine, eNewspaper, or interactive PDF.

An Electronic Doc license is based on the number of publications in which the font is used. Each issue counts as a separate publication. Regional or format variations don't count as separate publications.

Updated versions of publications that are free to previous customers do not need a new license; otherwise, each new version that is released counts as a separate publication.

For font usage in graphic images shown as the ePub cover, consider a Desktop license instead as most allow for it.

Custer Electronic Doc EULA

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About Custer Font Family

In 2009, a book from 1897 in the library of the University of Wisconsin caught David Berlow’s attention. It was set in a clear text face—a predecessor of Bookman—cast by the Western Type Foundry who called it Custer.

Upon noting how well the typeface worked in sizes of 6 and 7 points, Berlow developed it into a member of the Reading Edge series specifically designed for small text on screen. Custer RE was a broad and approachable typeface drawn large on the body with a tall x-height to maximize its apparent size when set very small.

This was the beginning of the newly expanded series; in 2020, Berlow added new optical sizes and weights, growing the original design’s versatility up to headline sizes.

Designers: David Berlow

Publisher: Font Bureau

Foundry: Font Bureau

Design Owner: Font Bureau

MyFonts debut: Jul 18, 2023

Custer™ is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

About Font Bureau

Font Bureau was founded in 1989 by type designer David Berlow and media strategist Roger Black. Headquartered in Boston, MA, the small foundry employs a staff of full-time designers and its library has been contributed to by the likes of Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, Jim Parkinson, John Downer, Leslie Cabarga, Cyrus Highsmith, Berlow himself, and others. “In a big way, all the designers whose work is published through Font Bureau are my latest teachers,” Berlow, a recipient of the SoTA Award, says in his Creative Characters interview. “From them I learn how to look at things related to type today from a variety of stylistic and entrepreneurial perspectives.” Throughout the last quarter of a century, Font Bureau has designed custom typefaces for almost every major American publication and has built a retail library that houses some of the most popular fonts on the market such as bestsellers Interstate and Benton Sans. “While font technologies continue to evolve, the core principles and skills required to design high quality, worthwhile typefaces have changed little,” Font Bureau states on their website. “The decisions about what designs to produce and how to craft them draw upon a base of typographic knowledge built firmly on hundreds of years of tradition. This remains the essence of what Font Bureau does.” Berlow’s illustrious career in type design was celebrated when he won the Type Directors Club metal in 2014. “Type designers who lived hundreds and occasionally thousands of years ago are still teaching me, because type design is pretty much infinite,” he says, “and all it takes is a letter you’ve never seen before to incite learning, I think.”The Premium foundry page can be viewed Here.

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Custer™

Custer Display Regular - Glyph count:

Custer Complete Family

Best Value!

Custer Subhead Pack

Custer Display Pack

Custer Text Pack

Custer Small Pack

Licensing Options

Desktop: for use on a desktop workstation

Webfonts: for your website

App: for embedding in mobile applications

Digital Ad/Email: for use in HTML5 ads

Electronic Doc: for embedding in e-text products

Licensing Options

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