Ledger
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/ledger 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Ledger", serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
The austere and concise personality and flexibility make it a real multiple-purpose typeface. The letter forms are distinguished by a large x-height, sufficient stroke contrast, robust but elegant wedge-like serifs and terminals. These features have been specially designed to reach maximum of quality and readability when used in unfavorable print and display processes - such as in newspapers, laser printed documents and on low resolution screens. The typeface can be qualified as matched to modern trends of type design and of enhanced legibility. These characteristics provide an undeniable distinction to the typeface, making it suitable for editorial use in newspapers and magazines, corporate ID, advertising and display typography.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/ledger Designed by
Denis Masharov
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License
OFL-1.1