Bellota

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Bellota Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Bellota Regular Italic
• Bold 700Bellota Bold Bold Italic

About Bellota

Bellota is a decorated sans serif drawn with a thin, even line. The specimen shows the ornament clearly: the capital A stands on a curled foot, the f drops below the baseline in a hook, k and Q carry small loops, and the y ends in a curl. Underneath the decoration the letters are open and round, with a single-storey a. The family has three weights, Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each paired with an italic, which makes six static styles. OpenType features add ligatures and stylistic alternates; the official notes list one stylistic set that swaps in plainer text forms and another for swash capitals. The fonts hold 1,299 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets. Kemie Guaida is the designer, and Bellota is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bellota works

Craft and bakery branding

Curled terminals on a thin line give a shop name a handmade tone, and Bold keeps it visible on a small label.

Headings on lifestyle blogs

Light and Regular set large show the loops of f, k and y that disappear at small sizes.

Children's book covers

Round open letters with a single-storey a stay easy to read while the ornaments add play.

Stationery and greeting cards

Six styles allow a title in Bold and a line of italic beneath it from the same family.

Titles in Russian or Vietnamese

Cyrillic and Vietnamese character sets carry the decorated style into those scripts.

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
• Russian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Bellota

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

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

Things to know

Ornament can be switched

Stylistic Set 1 replaces decorated letters with plainer text forms and Stylistic Set 2 adds swash capitals, in software that exposes OpenType features.

Static files, not variable

The download contains six separate files: Light, Regular and Bold, each upright and italic.

Greek is absent

The non-Latin coverage is Cyrillic. No Greek character set is included.

FAQs

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