Leo FONT Download

Leo was designed by Patrick Griffin, Hans van Maanen and published by Canada Type. Leo contains 12 styles and family package options.  

Leo is an economic magazine and book face meant for use in sizes suitable for immersive reading, with different cuts optimized for different body copy size ranges, like footnotes and legal text. Designed with the explicit intent of relaying information without calling attention to itself, this typeface places itself squarely on the 'function' side of the eternal debate about form versus content.

The roman Leo fonts were built with as little ornamentation as possible, with wedge serifs, a high x-height and a skeleton somehwat rooted in the designers' reflections on the modern, post-war Dutch archetype. Rather than follow traditional models with entirely different forms, contracted widths and steep slants, the Leo italics deliver naturally subtle emphasis in reading by closely relating to the forms, stance and rhythm of their roman counterparts.

The 12 Leo fonts contain over 700 glyphs each, and include support for the vast majority of Latin languages. Included OpenType features are built-in small caps, lining and oldstyle figures in both proportional and tabular sets, superiors, numerators, denominators inferiors, ordinals, automatic fractions, ligatures, and optional long descenders for optimal counterspace management in book and magazine text layout.

For more information on Leo's character set, features and some print tests, please consult the PDF in the gallery section of this page.

Font Family:
· Leo Light
· Leo Light Italic
· Leo Book
· Leo Book Italic
· Leo SmallText
· Leo SmallText Italic
· Leo
· Leo Italic
· Leo Medium
· Leo Medium Italic
· Leo Bold
· Leo Bold Italic


File Size: 4.75 MB

Tags: academic, body copy, book, book text, canadian, chiseled, clean, clear, conservative, contemporary, dutch, economic, editorial, fractions, immersive reading, legible, literary, literature, magazine, neutral, news, newspaper, novel, original, readable, serif, sharp, simple, smallcaps, text, transparent, wedge, wedge serif, workhorse

Release date: January 21, 2015

You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)

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