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Be Vietnam Pro

A neo-grotesque sans serif with Vietnamese diacritics drawn as a priority, in nine weights with italics.

Sans Serif 18 styles by Lâm Bảo, Tony Le, ViệtAnh Nguyễn OFL

Be Vietnam Pro is a neo-grotesque sans serif family by Lâm Bảo, Tony Le and ViệtAnh Nguyễn, with Vietnamese letterforms and diacritics refined for readability. Be Vietnam Pro has nine weights from Thin to Black with italics, 18 styles in static files. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits product interfaces, startup branding and text.

Be Vietnam Pro font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Lâm Bảo, Tony Le, ViệtAnh Nguyễn
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
18 9 weights, with italics
Variable font
No
Glyphs
524
Languages checked
23 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002; ttfautohint (v1.8.3)

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

Try Be Vietnam Pro

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Be Vietnam Pro Thin Thin Italic
  • ExtraLight 200Be Vietnam Pro ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
  • Light 300Be Vietnam Pro Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Be Vietnam Pro Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Be Vietnam Pro Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Be Vietnam Pro SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Be Vietnam Pro Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Be Vietnam Pro ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Be Vietnam Pro Black Black Italic

About Be Vietnam Pro

Be Vietnam Pro is a neo-grotesque sans serif family in which the Vietnamese alphabet was a starting point, not an afterthought: the official notes describe diacritics with adaptive forms, engineered for readability. In the specimen the letters are round and open, close to geometric, with a single-storey a, a circular o, even strokes and a generous lowercase height. The family has nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, 18 styles supplied as static files, and is not a variable font. Each font has 524 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Lâm Bảo, Tony Le and ViệtAnh Nguyễn are credited as designers, and the name table lists Yellow Type Foundry as manufacturer. The official description points the family at technology companies and startups. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Be Vietnam Pro works

Vietnamese-language apps and sites
The diacritics were refined for Vietnamese, where two accents often stack on one vowel and need room in tight line spacing.
Startup and technology branding
Round, near-geometric shapes and nine weights give a young product a full type system from one family.
Interface text
The tall lowercase and even strokes seen in the specimen keep Regular clear in forms, lists and buttons.
Marketing headlines
ExtraBold and Black set short claims heavily, while Thin and ExtraLight suit large figures.
Bilingual Vietnamese and English material
Both languages use the same Latin letters here, so headings and text match across versions.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 524 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
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2021 The Be Vietnam Pro Project Authors (https://github.com/bettergui/BeVietnamPro),

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 Be Vietnam Pro

Caudex Serif

Be Vietnam Pro is sans serif and Caudex is serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Belgrano Slab Serif

Be Vietnam Pro is sans serif and Belgrano is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Azeret Mono Monospace

Azeret Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Be Vietnam Pro as the text face.

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 Be Vietnam Pro 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: "Be Vietnam Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BeVietnamPro-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Be Vietnam Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BeVietnamPro-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Be Vietnam Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BeVietnamPro-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Be Vietnam Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BeVietnamPro-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 14 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Be Vietnam Pro", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Be Vietnam Pro with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Static files only
Be Vietnam Pro ships as 18 separate files; this package has no variable font.
Single-storey a
The lowercase a is the round, one-storey form, which makes it closer in shape to o than a double-storey a would be.
Romanian and Latvian are incomplete
Most European Latin-script languages are covered, but not every letter for Romanian and Latvian is present.

FAQs

Is Be Vietnam Pro free for commercial use?

Be Vietnam Pro can be used in commercial work at no cost under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits modification and redistribution, but the font files cannot be sold on their own and derivatives must stay under the same license.

Who designed Be Vietnam Pro?

Be Vietnam Pro is credited to Lâm Bảo, Tony Le and ViệtAnh Nguyễn. The font files name Yellow Type Foundry as manufacturer.

How many weights does Be Vietnam Pro have?

Be Vietnam Pro has nine weights, Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic: 18 styles in total.

Is Be Vietnam Pro a variable font?

No. Be Vietnam Pro is not a variable font; every style is a separate static file.

Is Be Vietnam Pro only for Vietnamese?

No. Be Vietnam Pro was refined for Vietnamese but also includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and other Latin-script languages.

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