Averia Libre

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Averia Libre Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Averia Libre Regular Italic
• Bold 700Averia Libre Bold Bold Italic

About Averia Libre

Averia Libre is a typeface produced by calculation instead of by drawing: both its glyph outlines and its spacing come from averaging 725 fonts in the Google Fonts collection, a process its author Dan Sayers documents on his own site. The specimen shows what averaging does to letters. Stroke ends swell into rounded stubs where serifs of many fonts overlap, corners are softened, and the forms sit somewhere between serif and sans serif, as if seen slightly out of focus. The name plays on the Spanish word avería, meaning breakdown or mechanical damage, which shares a root with the English word average. The family has three weights, Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, six styles, and 234 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. Sibling families are Averia Sans Libre, Averia Serif Libre and Averia Gruesa Libre.

Where Averia Libre works

Headlines with a soft, worn look

Rounded stroke ends and blurred corners resemble ink spread on rough paper, without any texture effect being applied.

Brand names for crafts and food

The in-between serif and sans shapes read as friendly and informal on labels and shop fronts.

Short texts with emphasis

Three weights with italics allow bold and italic stress in an introduction or a pull quote.

Projects about data or type

A face made by averaging 725 fonts carries its own story for articles and talks on typography or statistics.

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

Fonts that pair with Averia Libre

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 Averia Libre 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: "Averia Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaLibre-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Averia Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaLibre-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Averia Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaLibre-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Averia Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaLibre-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Averia Libre 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=Averia+Libre:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Generated, not drawn

Outlines and metrics result from an averaging process, which explains the soft, irregular edges.

Basic Latin only

The fonts have 234 glyphs in the basic Latin subset, enough for English and Western European languages; the Latin Extended subset is not included.

Static files

Averia Libre is not a variable font. The six styles are separate TTF files.

Reserved font names

The license notice reserves the names Averia and Averia Libre.

FAQs

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