Locke

Name: Locke
Author: Charles Daoud

Locke offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Slab Serifby Charles Daoud80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Locke, including combinations with Diamond Grotesk, Jm Modern and Sligoil.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Locke with any font combination in real-time, optimized for slab serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Locke Editorial Specimen

Locke in Editorial Context

Locke is a slab serif typeface by Charles Daoud suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Charles Daoud

Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

Locke demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a slab serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Locke supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Charles Daoud, Locke balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Locke Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Locke Specimen

Locke

Locke is a slab serif typeface by Charles Daoud built for display contexts.

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Locke— slab serif typeface

LockeBy Charles Daoud

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Locke Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Locke

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Locke, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Locke demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Locke for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Locke small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Locke delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Locke italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Locke bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Locke typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Locke typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Locke'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Locke

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Locke:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Locke:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Locke';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Locke:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Locke in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Locke', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Locke', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'locke': ['Locke', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-locke">Your text here</p>

About

The Design of Locke

Charles Daoud

Slab Serif

Open Source

Locke font is a geometric slab-serif by Charles Daoud designed for clean contemporary applications with structural precision. This refined typeface delivers modern presence suited for technology branding, minimalist editorial design, and visual identities requiring geometric slab-serif clarity. Locke brings straightforward sophistication appropriate for software interfaces, architectural graphics, and publication design where clean geometric forms communicate contemporary professionalism. The geometric construction creates consistent visual rhythm. Designers seeking geometric modern slab-serifs will appreciate Locke's clean approach. Pairs effectively with humanist sans-serifs for contemporary editorial contrast.

Locke comes from the work of Charles Daoud. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Slab Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic classification, Locke features unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for headlines and display typography requiring punch.

Locke is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Locke

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Locke's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Slab Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Locke within the Mechanistic (Slab Serif / Egyptienne) tradition, characterized by Unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and Low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. Slab serifs emerged in early 19th-century British advertising type, pioneered by Vincent Figgins around 1815. Key technical strength: consistent rendering across screen resolutions.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). Locke performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Charles Daoud. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Slab Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Locke

Locke embodies the Mechanistic typeface, anchored in the tradition where slab serifs emerged in early 19th-century British advertising type, pioneered by Vincent Figgins around 1815. Its distinctive unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight make it well-suited for headlines and display typography requiring punch. TypeSmith features Locke in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Locke

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Locke based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Locke: Accessibility Considerations

Locke achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Monolinear slab designs reduce halation risk. Their sturdy structure aids recognition for readers with low vision or dyslexia.

Locke's Legibility

Locke draws legibility from its unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Locke Reading Performance

The uniform stroke weight and blocky serifs maintain legibility at small sizes on screen. Geometric slabs perform well in UI contexts where clarity is paramount. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Locke's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Locke provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Locke Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Locke. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. For low-vision users, pair Locke with high-contrast backgrounds and avoid setting below 18 px.

Getting the Most from Locke

Combine with humanist sans-serifs for warmth or with a contrasting Didone serif for editorial hierarchy. Avoid pairing with blackletter or heavy display faces. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Locke. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Locke in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

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Internationalization

Locke Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 349 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Locke is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Locke ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'locke': ['Locke', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-locke">Your text here</p>

Locke

Best Ways to Use Locke

Best Font Pairings for Locke

Test Locke Font Pairings Live

In Context

Locke Typography

Locke

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Locke

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Locke: Accessibility Considerations

Locke's Legibility

Locke Reading Performance

Locke's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Locke Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Locke

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Locke

Best Ways to Use Locke

Best Font Pairings for Locke

Test Locke Font Pairings Live

In Context

Locke Typography

Locke

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Locke

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Locke: Accessibility Considerations

Locke's Legibility

Locke Reading Performance

Locke's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Locke Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Locke

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference