Trantor

Three fonts based on the lettering of Foundation, each with a lowercase, a SemiBold and the characters for everyday UK English.

Download the series Source on GitHub

Trantor Hand

Psychohistory predicts the fall

From the title sequence. Titles, headings and short text.

Regular, SemiBold · ss01 dotted o and crossed w

Specimen and usage Download

Trantor Caption

400 years earlier

From the place and time captions. Labels, captions and short lines.

Regular, SemiBold · ss01 dotted e

Specimen and usage Download

Trantor Mark

Foundation

From the series logo, wide spacing included. Wordmarks and a few large words.

Regular, SemiBold · ss01 thinner-logo capitals

Specimen and usage Download

Using the series

One stylesheet loads every family and weight; browsers only download the files a page uses. Self-host the fonts/ folder, or load it from jsDelivr pinned to a release:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/desholmes/trantor-type@v1.0.0/fonts/trantor.css">
h1, h2 { font-family: "Trantor Mark", sans-serif; font-weight: 600; }
body   { font-family: "Trantor Hand", sans-serif; }
.label { font-family: "Trantor Caption", sans-serif;
         text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.04em; }

Each family's page has its own stylesheet, stylistic sets and desktop install notes.

Licence and credits

The fonts are modified versions of Foundation Titles Hand, Foundation One and Foundation Logo, © 2021 Roger Sperberg. Lowercase, SemiBold and Latin-1 additions © 2026 Codecup Ltd.

They are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: free to use, embed and modify, but not to sell on their own. Include the licence when you redistribute them. The original names are reserved by their licences, hence the new names. The build tooling and this site are MIT-licensed.

Foundation is an Apple TV+ series based on the Isaac Asimov books. These fan-made fonts aren't affiliated with or endorsed by Apple, Skydance or the Asimov estate. The fonts' licence doesn't cover the show's trademarks, so setting the series logo for commercial use may still infringe them.