Type selection is key
Typography sets the tone before you say a word. It shapes how your message comes across — how it feels, how it’s read, and how it’s remembered.
We notice type most when it’s wrong. When something feels off. The spacing’s tight, the voice is too loud, or it just doesn’t match what’s being said. But when the type is right, it gets out of the way — and helps the words do their job. It can give structure to ideas. It makes space for meaning. Typography isn’t just about style. It’s about the way we take in information. It adds rhythm to the reading experience. It tells us where to look first and what matters most. It makes content easier to follow, and in some cases, easier to trust. The tone comes through in the details — the shape of the letters, how they’re spaced, the way one form leads to the next. Some typefaces feel quiet and careful. Others have energy. Some pull you in. Some stay out of the way. Choosing the right one is less about picking a look and more about finding a voice that fits what you want to say.That’s why trying type in context matters. It’s one thing to see a beautiful letter or a well-set specimen — but it’s another thing to see how it handles your content. How it behaves when it’s small. How it reads when it’s big. How it feels with your own words.That’s what this space is for. Try a headline. Paste a paragraph. Adjust the size, change the weight, type something unexpected. Some typefaces are built to be expressive. Others are made to stay flexible. The best ones hold up in all kinds of situations. They do the job without losing their character. Take a minute to experiment. You’ll know when it feels right.

About Skin & Bones Regular

Skin & Bones Regular is a part of the Skin & Bones font family. It includes OpenType features such as stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, and several more.

Skin & Bones was originally designed by Douglas F. Jones for the Visual Graphics Corporation, which made the Photo Typositor, a headline-setting machine. Jones was inspired by Herbert Bayer’s geometric alphabets as part of the Bauhaus movement and thought that an inline treatment would be visually appealing. In 2017, Doug gave Mark Simonson permission to create an official version of Skin & Bones, resulting in a faithful digitization of Doug’s 1972 design but with a larger character set.

Language Support

Language Support

  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Fula
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

Features

OpenType Features

  • Common Ligatures
  • Fractions
  • Ordinal Numerals
  • Stylistic Alternates
  • Stylistic Sets
  • Subscript
  • Superscript

Skin & Bones Character Set

latin capital letter a U+0041
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Uppercase Letter Latin

Uppercase Letter Greek

Lowercase Letter Latin

Lowercase Letter

Lowercase Letter Greek

Modifier Letter

Other Letter Latin

Nonspacing Mark Inherited

Decimal Number

Other Number

Connector Punctuation

Dash Punctuation

Close Punctuation

Final Punctuation

Initial Punctuation

Other Punctuation

Open Punctuation

Currency Symbol

Modifier Symbol

Math Symbol

Other Symbol

Ligatures

Stylistic Alternates

Stylistic Set 1

Stylistic Set 2

Stylistic Set 3

Stylistic Set 4

Stylistic Set 5

Stylistic Set 6

Stylistic Set 7

Stylistic Set 8

Stylistic Set 9

Stylistic Set 10

Stylistic Set 11

Stylistic Set 12

Stylistic Set 13

Stylistic Set 14

Stylistic Set 15

Stylistic Set 16

Stylistic Set 17

Stylistic Set 18

Stylistic Set 19

Fractions

Ordinals

Scientific Inferiors

Superscript

Subscript

Numerators

Denominators

Glyph Composition