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Tungsten®

by Hoefler & Co.

Licenses from $209.00 USD

Complete family of 32 fonts: $521.00 USD

Tungsten Font Family was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones with Jonathan Hoefler and published by Hoefler & Co.. Tungsten contains 64 styles and family package options.

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Aa Glyphs
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Tungsten Thin ▲

Tungsten Thin

Tungsten Extra Light

Tungsten Light

Tungsten Book

Tungsten Medium

Tungsten Semibold

Tungsten Bold

Tungsten Black

Tungsten Narrow Thin

Tungsten Narrow Extra Light

Tungsten Narrow Light

Tungsten Narrow Book

Tungsten Narrow Medium

Tungsten Narrow Semibold

Tungsten Narrow Bold

Tungsten Narrow Black

Tungsten Condensed Thin

Tungsten Condensed Extra Light

Tungsten Condensed Light

Tungsten Condensed Book

Tungsten Condensed Medium

Tungsten Condensed Semibold

Tungsten Condensed Bold

Tungsten Condensed Black

Tungsten Compressed Thin

Tungsten Compressed Extra Light

Tungsten Compressed Light

Tungsten Compressed Book

Tungsten Compressed Medium

Tungsten Compressed Semibold

Tungsten Compressed Bold

Tungsten Compressed Black

Tungsten Thin - 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.

Tungsten Complete Family Pack

32 fonts

Best Value!

Tungsten Thin
Tungsten Extra Light
Tungsten Light
Tungsten Book
Tungsten Medium
Tungsten Semibold
Tungsten Bold
Tungsten Black
Tungsten Narrow Thin
Tungsten Narrow Extra Light
Tungsten Narrow Light
Tungsten Narrow Book
Tungsten Narrow Medium
Tungsten Narrow Semibold
Tungsten Narrow Bold
Tungsten Narrow Black
Tungsten Condensed Thin
Tungsten Condensed Extra Light
Tungsten Condensed Light
Tungsten Condensed Book
Tungsten Condensed Medium
Tungsten Condensed Semibold
Tungsten Condensed Bold
Tungsten Condensed Black
Tungsten Compressed Thin
Tungsten Compressed Extra Light
Tungsten Compressed Light
Tungsten Compressed Book
Tungsten Compressed Medium
Tungsten Compressed Semibold
Tungsten Compressed Bold
Tungsten Compressed Black

Per Style:

$16.28 USD

Pack of 32 styles:

$521.00 USD

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Tungsten Narrow Family Pack

8 fonts

Tungsten Narrow Thin
Tungsten Narrow Extra Light
Tungsten Narrow Light
Tungsten Narrow Book
Tungsten Narrow Medium
Tungsten Narrow Semibold
Tungsten Narrow Bold
Tungsten Narrow Black

Per Style:

$26.12 USD

Pack of 8 styles:

$209.00 USD

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Tungsten Family Pack

8 fonts

Tungsten Thin
Tungsten Extra Light
Tungsten Light
Tungsten Book
Tungsten Medium
Tungsten Semibold
Tungsten Bold
Tungsten Black

Per Style:

$26.12 USD

Pack of 8 styles:

$209.00 USD

Buying Choices

Tungsten Condensed Family Pack

8 fonts

Tungsten Condensed Thin
Tungsten Condensed Extra Light
Tungsten Condensed Light
Tungsten Condensed Book
Tungsten Condensed Medium
Tungsten Condensed Semibold
Tungsten Condensed Bold
Tungsten Condensed Black

Per Style:

$26.12 USD

Pack of 8 styles:

$209.00 USD

Buying Choices

Tungsten Compressed Family Pack

8 fonts

Tungsten Compressed Thin
Tungsten Compressed Extra Light
Tungsten Compressed Light
Tungsten Compressed Book
Tungsten Compressed Medium
Tungsten Compressed Semibold
Tungsten Compressed Bold
Tungsten Compressed Black

Per Style:

$26.12 USD

Pack of 8 styles:

$209.00 USD

Buying Choices

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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.

Tungsten Desktop 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.

Tungsten App 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.

Tungsten WebFont 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.

Tungsten 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.

Tungsten Electronic Doc EULA

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About Tungsten Font Family

That rarest of species, Tungsten is a compact and sporty sans serif that’s disarming instead of pushy — not just loud, but persuasive.

The Tungsten typeface was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones with Jonathan Hoefler in 2003. A family of compact, modular sans serifs, Tungsten works in a style colorfully known to sign painters as ‘gaspipe lettering.’ First appearing on the Bravo television network in 2004, Tungsten’s four weights were expanded into a broader set of thirty-two styles in 2012.

From the desk of the designer:

Flat-sided sans serifs have been a vital part of graphic design since its very beginning. Like many of typography’s loveliest styles, these letters are an import from sign painting, where the style — doubtless because its kit of lines and curves resembles plumbing — is colorfully known as “Modern Gaspipe.” These modular letters were an important part of the twentieth century poster, bright and optimistic in the propaganda of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and peremptory in the Constructivism of the young USSR. In the service of any agenda, what these letters always signified was modernity, industry, and zeal.

Typographers have explored this compact modular style with mixed results. Typefaces that stay true to Depression-era forms run the risk of becoming nostalgic, forever evoking the sentimental Americana of tuxedo jackets and automats. Other designs, if they stick more doggedly to the underlying principles of rule and compass, often reveal how monotonous a typeface can become when restricted to too meager a kit of parts. Many such designs quit the fight when the going gets rough, abandoning their own internal rules when unruly letters like S or Ywon’t conform to the grid — a frailty that’s especially unwelcome in this kind of typeface, whose square-jawed ruggedness would otherwise recommend it for action movies and airport paperbacks.

We started wondering if there was a way to make a typeface in this genre that was disarming instead of brutish, one that employed confidence and subtlety instead of just raw testosterone. It was an unusual design brief for ourselves, completely without visual cues, instead trading in cultural associations: “more Steve McQueen than Steven Seagal,” reads one note; “whiskey highball, not a martini” suggests another. We decided to reduce the letterforms not to circles and squares, but to a manageable set of stated interrelationships — between inside and outside, uppercase and lowercase, and one letter and the next — that could be applied with equal consistency throughout the design. The result is Tungsten, a family of high-impact fonts that doesn’t sacrifice wit, versatility, or style.

Designers: Tobias Frere-Jones with Jonathan Hoefler

Publisher: Hoefler & Co.

Foundry: Hoefler & Co.

Design Owner: Hoefler & Co.

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Tungsten® is a registered trademark of The Hoefler Type Foundry, Inc.

About Hoefler & Co.

Famous for designing long-lived typefaces marked by high performance and high style, Hoefler&Co creates the fonts that give voice to the world’s foremost institutions, publications, causes, and brands. With a library of 1,500 fonts designed for print, web, office, and mobile fonts, Hoefler&Co is everywhere. Their typefaces shaped the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Joe Biden; they’re on the cornerstone of One World Trade Center and on every iPhone ever made. They serve brands from Delta Air Lines to Tiffany & Co., publications from Harper’s Bazaar to The New York Times, institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, The Public Theater, and New York University, and non-profit organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and The Peconic Land Trust. The Premium foundry page can be viewed Here.

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Tungsten®

Tungsten Thin - Glyph count:

Tungsten Complete Family Pack

Best Value!

Tungsten Narrow Family Pack

Tungsten Family Pack

Tungsten Condensed Family Pack

Tungsten Compressed Family Pack

Licensing Options

Desktop: for use on a desktop workstation

App: for embedding in mobile applications

Webfonts: for your website

Digital Ad/Email: for use in HTML5 ads

Electronic Doc: for embedding in e-text products

Licensing Options

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