Afacad

Try Afacad

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Afacad Regular Italic
• Medium 500Afacad Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Afacad SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Afacad Bold Bold Italic

Afacad is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Afacad

Afacad is a sans serif family built on round bowls and plain, even strokes. In the specimen the lowercase a is single-storey, the capital A comes to a sharp point, and the ascenders of d, f and l rise high above a fairly small x-height, which gives a line of text an open, airy look. The family is a variable font: one file holds the upright styles and another the italics, each with a weight axis running from 400 to 700. Four named weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, are defined in both, which makes eight styles. The fonts contain 829 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Kristian Möller is named as designer in the font data, with Dicotype as the publisher, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Afacad works

Paragraph text on websites

Regular and Medium, with their italics for emphasis, cover articles and documentation; SemiBold and Bold handle the subheads.

Interface labels and menus

The 400 to 700 axis lets a design system pick intermediate weights for buttons, tabs and form labels from one file.

Brands with a geometric tone

The round o, single-storey a and pointed A give a wordmark or tagline a drawn-with-compass character.

Vietnamese and European-language content

Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets let one family carry several language versions of a site.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Afacad

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Afacad on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Afacad";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Afacad-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Afacad";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Afacad-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Afacad", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Afacad with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Afacad:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The weight range stops at Bold

The axis runs from 400 to 700 only. Afacad has no light, thin, extra-bold or black weights.

Two variable files

The package contains one variable file for upright styles and one for italics. Separate static files per weight are not included.

Latin script only

The character sets are Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. There is no Cyrillic or Greek.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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