Averia Sans Libre

Try Averia Sans Libre

Weights and styles

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

About Averia Sans Libre

Averia Sans Libre is a sans serif produced by calculation instead of by drawing: Dan Sayers overlaid the outlines of the 725 open fonts then in the Google Web Fonts project and kept the mean shape. In the specimen this shows as letters with slightly swollen, blurred-looking stroke ends, uneven joins and faint traces of serifs, as on the feet of the capital I and J. The spacing and metrics come out of the same averaging, and the character set keeps only what most source fonts contained: 234 glyphs, Latin only. The family has six styles, Light, Regular and Bold with an italic for each. Its name plays on a Spanish word for a breakdown, which shares a root with the English word average. Related families are Averia Serif Libre, Averia Gruesa Libre and the plain Averia Libre.

Where Averia Sans Libre works

Friendly headings

The softened, slightly irregular stroke ends take the stiffness out of a headline without turning it into handwriting.

Short texts with emphasis

Three weights with matching italics allow bold and italic emphasis inside a paragraph, which most display faces cannot offer.

Labels with a printed, worn look

Edges that look gently blurred resemble ink spread on paper, a fit for food labels and craft packaging.

Projects about data or generative design

A typeface that is literally the average of 725 others gives a title page a relevant story.

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 Sans 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 Sans 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 Sans Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaSansLibre-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Averia Sans Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaSansLibre-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Averia Sans Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaSansLibre-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Averia Sans Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AveriaSansLibre-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 Sans Libre", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

Latin only, 234 glyphs

Only glyphs present in a majority of the source fonts were kept, so the set is limited to basic Latin and Western European accents.

Six static files

Light, Regular and Bold each come as an upright and an italic file. There is no variable version.

Reserved names

The copyright notice reserves the font names Averia and Averia Libre, so a modified version has to be released under a different name.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts