True Crimes

Name: True Crimes
Author: Walter Velez

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

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Retroby Walter Velez56% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for True Crimes

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for True Crimes, including combinations with Gudea, Average and Myndraine.

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 True Crimes with any font combination in real-time, optimized for retro characteristics.

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

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True Crimes Editorial Specimen

True Crimes in Editorial Context

True Crimes is a retro typeface by Walter Velez suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Walter Velez

Typeface Designer • Retro

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

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

Designed by Walter Velez, True Crimes balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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True Crimes Typography

A retro typeface for UI components.

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True Crimes Specimen

True Crimes

True Crimes is a retro typeface by Walter Velez built for display contexts.

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True Crimes

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True Crimes— retro typeface

True CrimesBy Walter Velez

True CrimesTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

True Crimes Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

True Crimes for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting True Crimes 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'True Crimes'; }

Quick Start

Adding True Crimes to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for True Crimes

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

True Crimes's Details

Walter Velez

Retro

Open Source

True Crimes is a free font from Walter Velez.

True Crimes was created by Walter Velez. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Retro typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, True Crimes features period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial illustration and poster design.

True Crimes is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of True Crimes

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

Classification

Retro analysis. From a classification standpoint, True Crimes within the Graphic (Period Revival / Retro) tradition, characterized by Period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and Inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. Retro typefaces revive lettering styles from specific historical periods, typically mid-20th-century Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, or 1970s phototypesetting aesthetics. Key technical strength: instant visual era-signaling for thematic branding.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 56). True Crimes handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by Walter Velez. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Retro with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About True Crimes

True Crimes is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted in the tradition where retro typefaces revive lettering styles from specific historical periods, typically mid-20th-century Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, or 1970s phototypesetting aesthetics. Its distinctive period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments make it well-suited for editorial illustration and poster design. TypeSmith features True Crimes in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for True Crimes

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to True Crimes 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

Adequate Accessibility

True Crimes: Accessibility Considerations

True Crimes falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative treatments like inlines and shadows can reduce contrast. Test against WCAG contrast ratios and avoid for essential interactive elements.

True Crimes's Legibility

True Crimes draws legibility from its period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is True Crimes?

Readability varies widely by source period. Art Deco geometrics can be quite legible; heavily ornamented Victorian revivals require large sizes and short text runs. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for True Crimes

True Crimes provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

True Crimes Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting True Crimes. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test True Crimes at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

True Crimes Usage Guidelines

Pair with a complementary era-appropriate text face or a neutral modern sans-serif. Avoid mixing retro styles from different decades in the same layout. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for True Crimes. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve True Crimes 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

True Crimes 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 67 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

True Crimes 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.

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

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Best Ways to Use True Crimes

Best Font Pairings for True Crimes

Test True Crimes Font Pairings Live

In Context

True Crimes Typography

True Crimes

Character Set

Type Scale

True Crimes for Paragraphs

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

True Crimes: Accessibility Considerations

True Crimes's Legibility

How Readable is True Crimes?

Eye Strain Considerations for True Crimes

True Crimes Accessibility Recommendations

True Crimes Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

True Crimes

Best Ways to Use True Crimes

Best Font Pairings for True Crimes

Test True Crimes Font Pairings Live

In Context

True Crimes Typography

True Crimes

Character Set

Type Scale

True Crimes for Paragraphs

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

True Crimes: Accessibility Considerations

True Crimes's Legibility

How Readable is True Crimes?

Eye Strain Considerations for True Crimes

True Crimes Accessibility Recommendations

True Crimes Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference