Teachers
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-variable/teachers 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/teachers/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Teachers Variable", sans-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
/* teachers-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Teachers Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/teachers:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
The Teachers font is an educational font family created for use by publishers, teachers, students, and parents of children in grades K through 6.
It is a clean geometric sans serif font intended to represent the letterforms of the alphabet as American children are taught to draw them in grade school. The font family was thoughtfully brought to life by a team of educators, designers and editors in 2023 for use in magazines and books, but is also well suited for class worksheets, newsletters, websites and other instructional and educational purposes.
The Teachers font comes in 8 styles: Regular, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold, with Italics. It is also available in variable font format with an adjustable weight axis, allowing designers more control over the font's display.
The Teachers fonts and refined character sets were assembled by font designer Chank Diesel, making edits and updates to the previously existing opensource fonts Glacial Indifference (Regular and Bold) by Alfredo Marco Pradil of Hanken Design Co.
To contribute, see github.com/chankfonts/Teachers-fonts.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/teachers Designed by
Alfredo Marco Pradil, Chank Diesel
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License
OFL-1.1