consensus

consensus is a very simple display font. It contains lower-case Roman letters and some punctuation; for convenience, the upper-case Roman character codes contain the lower-case glyphs too.

Consensus looks like this:

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The first few letters (just the letters of the word "consensus") were designed in Acorn Draw, for a company logo, with help from Daniel Thomas. The company then became Adsensus, so some new letters (and design rules) were needed.

I later turned the letters into a PostScript and TrueType font with the excellent PFAEdit (now called FontForge), and added the rest of the lower-case letters and some punctuation, to make it more general purpose. FontForge has poor TrueType hinting support, so the TrueType font is not recommended for screen use.

Typophiles may like to compare consensus with the Ubuntu-title font, which as well as being remarkably similar, sports a wide range of extra glyphs, in particular punctuation.