Phudu by Dương Trần — Display Font — preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Phudu Font

Phudu is a sans-serif display typeface inspired by Vietnamese hand-lettering billboards in the old days, that supports a wide range of languages by Duong Tran. As a new way to achieve variable font, the lighterPhudu gets, the extended it becomes, for people to read it easier compared to other lightweight narrow typefaces. In the progress of learning and crafting types, Duong has always thought about what makes a Vietnamese typeface. If we rewind to the past, we can see a Vietnamese lettering style on the billboard stores, when the artists adapted Latin typefaces and then added marks based on their styles. Among those, there were mostly all-caps sans-serif types played as descriptions or the store's names themself. To make a new easy-to-read and easy-to-get typeface, Duong mixed some of the researched letters from the story above. He doesn't want to just revive the types, he wants to improve them to fit the modern-day styles, but still have "Vietnamese" souls in them. The typeface was named Phudu (phục dựng) - "revival" in Vietnamese, and has a meaning of timeless (quite the opposite of the name when it can be read as "phù du" - ephemeral). To contribute, see github.com/duongtrtype/DTPhudu

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Light, Eye-catching, Bold, Display
Use Case
Headlines, Logos
Ideal For
posters, branding, and social media graphics
Pairs With
a readable sans or serif for body

Phudu Specifications

Font FamilyPhudu Light
StyleRegular
Full NamePhudu Light
Version1.005
Weight300 (Light)
Glyph Count606 glyphs
PostScript NamePhudu-Light
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size126.1 KB

OpenType Features

Phudu ships with 5 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Fractions
  • Ordinals
  • Scientific inferiors
  • Subscripts
  • Superscripts
  • Variable font · axes: wght

Languages Supported

Phudu supports 322 languages.

How to Install Phudu Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Phudu font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Phudu is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Phudu Font?

Phudu Font is a display font that shines as a display or heading face. Pair it with a clean sans-serif or serif font for body text — the contrast creates a clear hierarchy while the two styles stay balanced and easy to read.

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Phudu Font

by Dương Trần

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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