Manufacturing Consent
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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The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/manufacturing-consent 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Manufacturing Consent", system-ui;
} 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
Ah, Manufacturing Consent—the font that doesn’t just scream “serious journalism,” it calmly editorializes it in 144-point Fraktur while subtly nudging your worldview. A glorious typographic wolf in Pulitzer-winning sheep’s clothing, this typeface borrows its gravitas from the New York Times masthead and then cheekily slaps a Noam Chomsky title on it, because irony is the last frontier of design. Perfect for your zine, blog, or rogue press release about how pigeons are government surveillance drones.
Forked from the esteemed “Chomsky” font, Manufacturing Consent is for those who want their typography to look like it went to an Ivy League school but dropped out to start a podcast. Whether you're toppling empires or just mocking brunch culture, this free and open-source beauty lets you do it in blackletter style. Because nothing says “I read the footnotes” like vintage typographic propaganda dressed as objective truth.
To contribute, please see github.com/googlefonts/manufacturing-consent-font.
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pnpm add @fontsource/manufacturing-consent Designed by
Fredrick Brennan
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OFL-1.1