Artifika

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Artifika Regular

About Artifika

Artifika is a serif typeface that keeps the flowing shapes of an italic while standing upright. Its strokes start with a slight widening, a trace of the broad-nib pen behind the design, and its serifs are flat and lie close to horizontal, which carries the eye along the line. The specimen shows wide, open letters, short descenders, an f that dips below the baseline, and a k and x with calligraphic curved legs. The official notes present it as a face for fashionable display titling that also reads comfortably on screen. Yulya Zhdanova and Ivan Petrov designed it in 2010 and 2011 for Cyreal. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font; its 238 glyphs cover basic Latin. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Artifika works

Fashion and lifestyle titles

The official notes name fashionable display titling as the purpose, and the upright italic gives a headline movement without a slant.

Short introductions and pull quotes

Flat, near-horizontal serifs guide the eye along the line, which helps a few sentences read smoothly on screen.

Boutique and café branding

Calligraphic curves in k, x and f give a name a hand-shaped character while the upright stance stays calm.

Layouts with tight line spacing

Short descenders let lines of a title sit close together without collisions.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

Fonts that pair with Artifika

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 Artifika 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: "Artifika";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Artifika-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Artifika", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Artifika 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=Artifika&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

Artifika has a single Regular style. There is no bold and no separate slanted italic.

Basic Latin only

The 238 glyphs cover Western European languages. Latin Extended is not included, and French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

An italic that stands upright

Letter shapes follow italic construction, yet the stems are vertical, so it does not work as the italic companion of another face.

FAQs

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