Belgrano

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Belgrano Regular

About Belgrano

Belgrano is a slab serif typeface that began as a design for newspaper printing. For its web version the terminals were made coarser and the counters larger, changes that keep letters open when they are rendered very small. The specimen confirms it: serifs are thick rectangular slabs, stroke contrast is low, the lowercase is tall and wide, and the bowls of a, e and g are roomy. The g is a double-storey form with a flat ear, and the numerals are lining figures. Belgrano has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 229 glyphs sit in the Latin subset. The designer listing gives LatinoType, the font's name table credits Daniel Hernandez, and the copyright notice names LatinoType Limitada. The font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Belgrano works

Small text on screens

Enlarged counters and blunt terminals were introduced so the face holds up at very small sizes.

News-style headlines

The newspaper origin and sturdy slabs suit headlines and section titles on article pages.

Captions and bylines

Low contrast keeps thin strokes from breaking up in a line of small type under a photo.

Standfirsts and intro text

A wide, tall lowercase gives a short introductory paragraph an even, open texture.

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 Belgrano

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular only

Belgrano has no bold or italic. Full article typography needs a companion for emphasis.

Latin subset only

The 229 glyphs cover the latin subset; latin-ext, Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

Designer credit differs by source

The listing names LatinoType, while the font file itself credits Daniel Hernandez.

FAQs

Collections with Belgrano

• Fonts for newspapers and magazines

  Headline serifs, compact text faces and news gothics for editorial layouts in print and on news sites.

Similar fonts

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