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Agdasima

A condensed sans serif in Regular and Bold, built as a document fallback font and based on Big Shoulders.

Display 2 styles by The DocRepair Project, Patric King OFL

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Agdasima is a condensed sans serif from The DocRepair Project and Patric King, based on the Big Shoulders family. Agdasima comes in two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, with 259 glyphs for the basic Latin character set. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and serves as a document fallback and for compact headings.

Agdasima font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
The DocRepair Project, Patric King
Classification
Display
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
2 2 weights
Variable font
No
Glyphs
259
Languages checked
14 see the list
Last updated
version 2.002
Used for
HeadlinesBoldCondensedSignage

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Agdasima; the download contains the complete files.

Agdasima font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Agdasima specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Agdasima Regular
  • Bold 700Agdasima Bold

About Agdasima

Agdasima is a narrow sans serif produced by The DocRepair Project. Its stated job is to act as a fallback when a document calls for a condensed typeface that is not installed, keeping line breaks in Office Open XML files where they were and so supporting the ISO/IEC 29500 standard. The design is derived from Big Shoulders, a condensed American gothic by Patric King. In the specimen the letters are tall and tightly packed, round letters have straight sides, strokes are uniform and the x-height is high. Agdasima has Regular and Bold static fonts, no italic, and is not a variable font. Each contains 259 glyphs covering the basic Latin set used by Western European languages. The name table gives Google as manufacturer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Agdasima works

Opening office documents faithfully
Agdasima was made so that word-processing and presentation files asking for a missing condensed face keep their layout.
Tight headings
Tall, narrow capitals fit a long title into a slide or a table header.
Labels and signs
Straight-sided letters in Bold stay compact on shelf tags, badges and door signs.
Tables with many columns
Narrow numerals and letters let column headings sit above cramped data.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 259 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
  • Estonian

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

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2023 The Agdasima Project Authors (https://github.com/docrepair-fonts/agdasima-fonts).

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Agdasima

Inter Sans Serif

Agdasima is a display face for headings; Inter is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Amiri Serif

Agdasima is a display face for headings; Amiri is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif

Agdasima is a display face for headings; Montserrat Alternates is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Agdasima 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Agdasima";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Agdasima-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Agdasima";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Agdasima-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Regular and Bold only
The family has two static files and no italic.
Basic Latin coverage
The 259 glyphs cover Western European languages. Letters for Polish, Czech or Turkish are not complete.
Related to Big Shoulders
Agdasima is based on Big Shoulders, which offers a wider weight range under its own name.

FAQs

Is Agdasima free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Agdasima may be used in personal and commercial projects, changed and passed on, but it cannot be sold on its own, and derivative fonts keep the same license. Read the license text for the exact terms.

Who designed Agdasima?

Agdasima is credited to The DocRepair Project and Patric King; it is based on Patric King's Big Shoulders.

What is Agdasima used for?

Agdasima is a DocRepair font: a fallback meant to limit text reflow in Office Open XML documents when the condensed typeface they specify is unavailable. It also works as a compact heading face.

How many weights does Agdasima have?

Agdasima has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700.

Which languages does Agdasima support?

Agdasima includes the letters needed for English and Western European languages such as French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages, plus Estonian.

Is Agdasima a variable font?

No. Agdasima is not a variable font; it ships as separate Regular and Bold files.

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