Cheysson Font Families

Metadata about the five Cheysson font families included in the package, describing their characteristics and recommended uses.

Usage

cheysson_fonts

Format

A data frame with 5 rows and 4 variables:

family

Font family name (e.g., "Cheysson", "CheyssonTitle")

description

Brief description of the font style

use

Recommended use cases for the font

file

TrueType font filename in the inst/fonts/ directory

Source

Font families created by Kenneth Fields (ESRI) based on the lettering style of Émile Cheysson's Albums de Statistique Graphique.

Details

The package includes five hand-drawn font families created by Kenneth Fields (ESRI) to match the lettering style of the original Albums de Statistique Graphique:

• Cheysson: Regular serif font suitable for body text, axis labels, and legends

• CheyssonItalic: Italic variant for emphasis and annotations

• CheyssonSansCaps: Sans-serif capitals for axis labels and category names

• CheyssonOutlineCaps: Outlined capitals for decorative plot titles and headings

• CheyssonTitle: Decorative font for main plot titles

These fonts must be loaded before use with load_cheysson_fonts. The Cheysson themes (theme_cheysson, etc.) automatically select appropriate fonts for different plot elements.

See also

load_cheysson_fonts, cheysson_fonts_available, theme_cheysson

Examples

# View font metadata
cheysson_fonts
#>                family                             description
#> 1            Cheysson        Regular serif font for body text
#> 2      CheyssonItalic             Italic variant for emphasis
#> 3    CheyssonSansCaps          Sans-serif capitals for labels
#> 4 CheyssonOutlineCaps Outlined capitals for decorative titles
#> 5       CheyssonTitle         Decorative font for main titles
#>                                  use                            file
#> 1 General text, axis labels, legends     CheyssonRegular-Regular.ttf
#> 2              Emphasis, annotations       CheyssonItalic-Italic.ttf
#> 3        Axis labels, category names    CheyssonSansCaps-Regular.ttf
#> 4              Plot titles, headings CheyssonOutlineCaps-Regular.ttf
#> 5                   Main plot titles       CheyssonTitle-Regular.ttf

# Get recommended uses
cheysson_fonts[, c("family", "use")]
#>                family                                use
#> 1            Cheysson General text, axis labels, legends
#> 2      CheyssonItalic              Emphasis, annotations
#> 3    CheyssonSansCaps        Axis labels, category names
#> 4 CheyssonOutlineCaps              Plot titles, headings
#> 5       CheyssonTitle                   Main plot titles

# Find the title font
subset(cheysson_fonts, grepl("title", use, ignore.case = TRUE))
#>                family                             description
#> 4 CheyssonOutlineCaps Outlined capitals for decorative titles
#> 5       CheyssonTitle         Decorative font for main titles
#>                     use                            file
#> 4 Plot titles, headings CheyssonOutlineCaps-Regular.ttf
#> 5      Main plot titles       CheyssonTitle-Regular.ttf