Barriecito

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Barriecito Regular

About Barriecito

Barriecito is a display typeface with a deliberately amateur, hand-lettered look. Within the same alphabet some letters are drawn with thick, filled strokes and others with thin ones: in the specimen C, D, G, O and S are heavy while A, B, H and M are light, and the lowercase and numerals alternate in the same way. Stems tilt, widths are narrow and uneven, and no two curves match. The official notes present it as a development of the Barrio project that adds lowercase letters, with a friendly tone suited to hand-crafted products and billboards and to headline sizes on screens. The family is a single Regular style. Its 1,228 glyphs cover the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. The font's name table credits Pablo Cosgaya and Sergio Jiménez, the listing names Omnibus-Type, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Barriecito works

Market and neighbourhood posters

The mix of fat and thin letters looks painted by hand, which suits fairs, street parties and local announcements.

Labels for handmade goods

The official notes name hand-crafted products as a target; the uneven stems give a jar or soap label an unpolished finish.

Children's titles

Tilting letters and irregular widths give a book cover or a party invitation a playful rhythm.

Shop signs and billboards

Narrow letters fit a long name on a board, and the heavy characters catch the eye from a distance.

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 Barriecito

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

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

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

Things to know

Thick and thin are fixed per letter

Which letters are heavy and which are light is built into the font; there is no separate bold.

One style

Barriecito has a single Regular weight and no italic.

A headline face

The official notes recommend headline sizes on screens.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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