Overpass

Designed by Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin

9 weights • Version 19 • On Google Fonts since 2016 • Popularity #114

Quick Summary

18

Styles · incl. italic

100-900

Weight Range

1

Variable axis

5

Languages / Subsets

Category
sans-serif
Best for
textdisplayui
Descriptors
signage
Variable axes
Weight
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin, Vietnamese
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 2, 2025

© 2021 The Overpass Project Authors

The quick brown fox

32px

About Overpass Fonts

Overpass is a free, Open Source typeface designed by Delve Fonts. The design of Overpass is an interpretation of the well-known “Highway Gothic” letterforms from the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices published by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Starting from those specifications, critical adjustments were made to the letterforms to create an optimal presentation at smaller sizes on-screen and later for display sizes, especially in the lighter weights.

Also see Overpass Mono!

Overpass can be used for everything from extended passages of text in print and online, to UI design, posters, wayfinding signage, and environmental graphic design.

  • Designers: Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey, and Thomas Jockin
  • TrueType Hinting: Jason Campbell
  • Direction: Dave Crossland, Andy Fitzsimon, Jakub Steiner, and Ben Dubrovsky
  • Special thanks: Aaron Bell for his diligence in preparing v4.0 for release and Michael Luton for his insight and support.

To contribute to the project, please visit https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/Overpass

Who Designed Overpass?

Thomas Jockin portrait

Thomas Jockin

Thomas Jockin is a typeface designer and founder of TypeThursday.

Homepage | Type Thursday

Google FontsSource CodeOfficial Website

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