Judson

Designed by Daniel Johnson

2 weights • Version 20 • On Google Fonts since 2011 • Popularity #506

Quick Summary

3

Styles · incl. italic

400-700

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

3

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
display
Scripts
Latin, Vietnamese
Origin
Oman
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 11, 2025

© 2010, 2011 by Daniel Johnson . Released under the terms of the SIL Open Font License v1.1.

The quick brown fox

32px

About Judson Fonts

Judson is a serif font designed for African literacy. It contains as many glyphs and precomposed combinations that I know of for all African languages written in Latin-derived alphabets. It uses OpenType tables for correct placement of diacritical marks, including stacked marks. Care has been taken so that all characters are easily distinguished, even in the italic face. The medium roman face has support for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA.)

Currently Judson is only available in medium roman, italic and bold roman faces; at this time there is no bold italic.

Who Designed Judson?

Daniel Johnson portrait

Daniel Johnson

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