Rogue

Name: Rogue
Author: Catterio Sylt

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

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Slab Serifby Catterio Sylt86% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Font Pairings for Rogue

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Rogue, including combinations with Amiko, Suse Mono and Orbix.

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 Rogue 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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In Context

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Rogue Editorial Specimen

Rogue in Editorial Context

Rogue is a slab serif typeface by Catterio Sylt suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Catterio Sylt

Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

Rogue 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 Rogue supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

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

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Rogue Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Rogue Specimen

Rogue

Rogue is a slab serif typeface by Catterio Sylt built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSlab Serif Typeface

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Tagline Pairings

Rogue— slab serif typeface

RogueBy Catterio Sylt

RogueTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Rogue Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Rogue Body Typography

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

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

When setting Rogue 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.

Rogue 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	Rogue delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Rogue italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Rogue bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Rogue typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Rogue typography specimen

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

Quick Start

Integrating Rogue

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Rogue in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Rogue', 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        'rogue': ['Rogue', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-rogue">Your text here</p>

About

About Rogue

Catterio Sylt

Slab Serif

Open Source

Rogue font is a bold modern sharp slab-serif by Catterio Sylt designed for commanding contemporary display applications with edgy character. This striking typeface delivers confident presence suited for tech branding, aggressive marketing campaigns, and editorial design requiring bold modern authority. Rogue excels in startup identities, sport media graphics, and publication headlines where sharp slab-serif forms project contemporary strength. The modern construction creates progressive character while sharp details add distinctive edge. Designers seeking bold slab-serifs with contemporary attitude will appreciate Rogue's commanding approach. Pairs effectively with clean sans-serifs for modern editorial contrast.

Rogue was crafted by Catterio Sylt. 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, Rogue 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.

Rogue 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 Rogue

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

Classification

Slab Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Rogue 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: 86). Rogue delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. The uniform stroke weight and blocky serifs maintain legibility at small sizes on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by Catterio Sylt. 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 Rogue

Rogue represents a Mechanistic typeface, grounded 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 catalogs Rogue in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Rogue

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Typefaces Like Rogue

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Rogue 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

Rogue Accessibility Profile

Rogue scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Monolinear slab designs reduce halation risk. Their sturdy structure aids recognition for readers with low vision or dyslexia.

Rogue's Legibility

Rogue 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.

Rogue in Context: Readability

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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Rogue

Rogue 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.

Rogue Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Rogue Effectively

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 Rogue. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Rogue 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

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

International Character 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 470 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

Rogue Licensing

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.

Rogue 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 Rogue 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 'rogue': ['Rogue', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-rogue">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Rogue

Best Font Pairings for Rogue

Test Rogue Font Pairings Live

In Context

Rogue Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Rogue Body Typography

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

Rogue Accessibility Profile

Rogue's Legibility

Rogue in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Rogue

Rogue Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Rogue Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Rogue

Best Ways to Use Rogue

Best Font Pairings for Rogue

Test Rogue Font Pairings Live

In Context

Rogue Typography

Rogue

Character Set

Type Scale

Rogue Body Typography

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

Rogue Accessibility Profile

Rogue's Legibility

Rogue in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Rogue

Rogue Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Rogue Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference