Rokkitt

Designed by Vernon Adams

9 weights • Version 39 • On Google Fonts since 2011 • Popularity #253

Quick Summary

18

Styles · incl. italic

100-900

Weight Range

1

Variable axis

3

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
textdisplay
Descriptors
geometricslab
Variable axes
Weight
Scripts
Latin, Vietnamese
Origin
United States
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 11, 2025

© 2016 The Rokkit Project Authors

The quick brown fox

32px

About Rokkitt Fonts

Rokkitt was initiated by Vernon Adams when he was inspired by the type forms of a number of distinctive geometric slab serifs, sometimes called Egyptians, popular in the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth centuries. In 1910 the Inland Type Foundry published Litho Antique and similar types were published by American Type Founders in the 1920s and Monotype Corporation in the 1930s. Rokkitt is intended for use as a display font, in headings and headlines, though it can also be used as an alternative to sans serif designs at text sizes.

Update January 2017: Vernon Adams began the project in 2011, and developed the typeface until 2014. During 2016 Kalapi Gajjar completed Vernon's original work and released a substantial update with a full set of 9 weights, and support for more Latin languages.

Update July 2019: The family has been converted into a variable font.

Update January 2023: The family has now an italic.

To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/RokkittFont.

Who Designed Rokkitt?

Vernon Adams portrait

Vernon Adams

Vernon practiced typeface design professionally from 2007 to 2014. A lifelong artist, during this period he eagerly explored designing type for the mobile/cloud era of computing. His work spans all genres, from lively script faces to workhorse text families and operating system UI. Vernon graduated with an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading (UK) in 2006, and passed away in California in 2014. Almost all his typefaces live on as open source Google Fonts, and his favorite projects were Oxygen Mono, Monda, and Bowlby One. Follow his story at sansoxygen.com

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