Potelé Regular Font

Potelé takes its name from the French word for plump, and the letterforms earn it: chubby all-caps on heavy strokes, full round bowls, and soft huggable terminals, all finished with a naive hand-drawn wobble. It grows out of French sign-painting and the fat rounded lettering of 1970s film posters and café storefronts — yes, a café cliché. Annoyingly useful.

The font goes loud at display sizes, where the round caps take up room and do the talking. Tight tracking suits it best: squeeze the letters together and one word sets into a ready-made logo, the way an old shop sign reads as a single mark.

Practical uses:

• Branding and logos — bakeries, patisseries, cafés, ice-cream parlors, natural-wine bars.
• Signage and menu boards — storefront signs, enamel-style plaques, chalkboard menus, market stalls.
• Poster and flyer design — festivals, film nights, food fairs, block parties, gig posters.
• Packaging design — kids’ snacks, candy wrappers, jam jars, soda labels, gift boxes.
• Editorial — magazine headlines, chapter openers.

Features:

• uppercase characters;
• numerals, punctuation, currency, and reference symbols;
• extended Latin: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, and the Nordic set (Ø, Æ, Å, Œ, Ñ, Ç);
• OTF, TTF formats.