Designed by Keith Bates, Straight Line is a display serif font family. This typeface has two styles and was published by K-Type.
Straight Line is essentially an outline Modern, but drawn without any curves whatsoever. Thin horizontals and thick verticals provide the classic look of a Didone, updated and enhanced by clean, minimalist geometry.
In addition to the Straight Line font itself, the package includes Straight Line Solid with matching spacing and kerning. The Solid font can be used solo, or layered with the outline font to provide a color background.
Straight Line is an excellent display face for contemporary, eye-catching headings and sub-headings, and the fonts contain a full complement of Latin Extended-A characters.
The typeface was inspired by a 1930s experimental alphabet by the British artist, Percy J Smith.