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The hero
The name in banknote green on guilloche paper, with a stacked gold subtitle and the font's key numbers along the bottom.
A wide Didone engraved like a banknote · v1.000
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Denarion is banknote lettering for heist and casino games, whisky labels and certificates: a wide Didone whose strokes are filled with engraved lines, traced by a fine keyline and backed by a hatched shadow. Use it in one ink, or split it into five layers and print it like a note.
Type tester
Try it with your own words
The five layers are stacked here in the hero's banknote green. Try the other inks, from gold leaf to navy and silver, or switch the layers off to try Solid and Engraved on their own.
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This preview covers Basic Latin and the banknote extras. The full font adds every accented letter.
Features
Made for game interfaces
A wide, high-contrast Didone with banknote engraving, a keyline and a hatched shadow, in seven fonts: two one-colour styles and five layers that stack in colour.
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Two styles that stand alone
Solid is the clean letter, Engraved has the lines, keyline and hatched shadow in one font. Either one works in a single ink, like a note printed in green.
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Five layers to print in colour
Shadow, Shadow Lines, Fill, Lines and Outline share every width and kerning pair, so stacked copies line up exactly and each takes its own ink.
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Lines on one grid
The engraving runs on the same horizontal grid in every letter, so the lines continue from one letter to the next and thicken towards the foot of each stroke.
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A proper Didone
Wide, high-contrast letters with heavy stems, hairline joins, flat bracketed serifs, ball terminals on the lowercase and fine beaks on C, G and S.
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Banknote extras
A guilloche rosette, florette, starburst seal, two laurel sprigs, crown, key, coin, temple, star, diamond, lozenge and guilloche strips, typed like letters.
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Capitals and a real lowercase
386 characters per font, with the accented letters of Western and Central European languages, all engraved the same way.
Built-in icons
Fourteen icons you can type
Each icon is a character in the font. Click one to copy it, then paste it into anything set in Denarion.
Guilloche and laurels
Treasury
Case study
How Denarion was designed
Why I made it
Money has its own lettering. The big serif names on old notes and share certificates are cut by an engraver, line by line, so they can't be faked, and that fine striped look is what a heist game, a casino or a whisky label reaches for when it wants to feel valuable.
Most fonts that try it are a Didone with a stripe texture laid on top. I wanted the engraving to be the letter itself: lines that follow a grid, a keyline round every stroke and a shadow cut in hatching, so the result reads as printed rather than filtered.
One engraving, seven fonts
I drew the letter as a printer would separate it. Shadow is the solid drop, Shadow Lines is the diagonal hatching over it, Fill is the tint behind the engraving, Lines is the engraving and Outline is the keyline. Stacked from the bottom up, in that order, they rebuild the full note.
For work that only has one ink, Engraved puts the lines, keyline and hatched shadow into a single font, and Solid gives the plain letter for body copy, buttons and small labels. All seven share their spacing and kerning, so a title and its stacked version set exactly the same.
The details of the cut
The engraved lines sit on one horizontal grid across the alphabet, so they run on from letter to letter instead of starting fresh in each one, and they grow heavier towards the foot of every stroke, the way an engraver darkens the bottom of a form.
Underneath is a real Didone: wide proportions, vertical stress, heavy stems against hairline joins, flat bracketed serifs, ball terminals on the lowercase and thin vertical beaks on C, G and S. The shadow always falls down and to the right.
What goes on a note
Banknotes are more than words, so the font carries the ornaments too: a guilloche rosette, a florette, a starburst seal, laurel sprigs facing both ways, a crown, a key, a coin, a classical temple, a star, a diamond, a lozenge and two guilloche strips for borders.
They are drawn in every layer, so a stacked crown gets gold under brown engraving like the letters next to it. Some of them sit on emoji code points, so if an app swaps one for a colour emoji, insert it from the glyphs panel instead.
In use
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The Photoshop template
The editable hero layout from the download, here with the name stacked in gold over a green hatched shadow and a framed Treasury Note label.
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A heist game menu
A gold-on-green title screen for The Vault Job, with laurel and temple ornaments and a menu set in the plain style.
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Anatomy of a letter
A large R labelled with its hairline serifs, engraved lines, thick and thin strokes, keyline and hatched shadow, next to accented Spanish and Czech words.
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The seven fonts
Solid, Engraved and the five layers on their own, then Shadow Lines, Fill, Lines and Outline stacked into one gold and brown Ag.
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Six inks
The same layers printed as banknote green, gold leaf, burgundy, navy and silver, sepia certificate and copper seal.
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On labels and certificates
A whisky label, a certificate of excellence and a tea tin, each set in a different colour of Denarion.
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Banknote extras
Every ornament with its code point, from the guilloche rosette and seal to the crown, coin, temple and the two guilloche strips.
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Character set
Capitals, lowercase, figures, punctuation, currency and the accented letters, in Engraved and Solid.
What you get
Everything in the download
- Desktop fontsOTF for design apps, TTF for game engines and Windows, all seven fonts.
- Web fontsWOFF2 for all seven fonts, with unlimited web use.
- Game engine packBMFont bitmap fonts (.fnt, .xml and .png atlas) at 32, 64 and 128 px, for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, LibGDX, Phaser, MonoGame and Love2D.
- Photoshop templateAn editable hero layout with live type layers, layer effects and textures.
- README and licenseSetup tips for design apps, websites and game engines, and the full license.
License
Included with every purchase
- Games and apps, embedded for unlimited copies sold
- Logos, merch, videos, streams and print, with no limit on sales
- Installed on unlimited computers: yours, your team's and your company's
- Websites, with unlimited page views and traffic
Ask me first
- Products where customers type their own text in the font
- Resale in asset packs, templates or font collections
Please don't share or resell the font files. For anything the license doesn't cover, email me. idris.hadjoudj@gmail.com
FAQ
Before you buy
Which styles are included?
Seven fonts with the same spacing and kerning. Denarion Solid and Denarion Engraved each work alone in one colour. Shadow, Shadow Lines, Fill, Lines and Outline are layers: stack them on top of each other to print the letters in several colours, such as gold leaf under dark engraving.
How do I stack the layers?
Type the same text five times in exactly the same position and set the copies, from bottom to top, to Shadow, Shadow Lines, Fill, Lines and Outline. Give each its own colour and keep the size, tracking and line spacing identical. You can leave Shadow or Shadow Lines out for a lighter shadow.
Solid or Engraved for small text?
The engraved lines are fine, so they look best at title and label sizes. For menus, body copy and anything small, use Solid: it's the same letter without the lines, so it sits well next to an engraved title.
Can I use Denarion in a game I sell, or for its logo?
Yes. Commercial use is included for games, apps, logos, merch, videos, streams and print, with no limit on sales, and you can embed the fonts and bitmap fonts in games and apps for unlimited copies. Products where your customers type their own text, and resale in asset packs, need an extended license: just ask.
Does Denarion work in Unity, Godot and GameMaker?
Yes. Use the TTF files in any engine that imports fonts, or the included game engine pack: BMFont bitmap fonts at 32, 64 and 128 px for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, LibGDX, Phaser, MonoGame and Love2D.
Can I use Denarion on my website?
Yes. WOFF2 web fonts are included, and web use is unlimited, with no cap on page views or traffic.
Which languages does it support?
Each font has 386 characters, covering Western and Central European languages.
Is Denarion part of a bundle?
Yes. Denarion is in The Complete Font Collection, every font I've made in one download.
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