Bellota Text

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Weights and styles

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

About Bellota Text

Bellota Text is a sans serif with thin, even strokes and a few decorative touches left in: the capital Q in the specimen ends in a long looping tail, and the lowercase y and j finish in soft curves. The Bellota project comes in two variations, an ornamented one and this Text one, which keeps the simpler letterforms as its default. Stylistic sets switch between the text shapes and swash capitals, and ligatures are available through OpenType. The family has six styles: Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic. It is not a variable font. The fonts hold 1,300 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese character sets. Kemie Guaida designed the family, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bellota Text works

Copy for cafes, crafts and small shops

Light strokes and the looped Q give menus and product descriptions an informal tone while the letters stay plain enough to read in sentences.

Packaging with a decorative initial

The swash capitals in the second stylistic set can start a product name, with the default shapes carrying the rest of the label.

Text with real italics

Each of the three weights has a drawn italic, so emphasis and captions do not rely on a slanted roman.

Children's books and school material

Open, round lowercase forms in Regular and Bold suit short reading passages and worksheet headings.

Latin and Cyrillic layouts

Vietnamese and Cyrillic character sets let the same six fonts serve more than one language edition.

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 Text

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

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

Things to know

Two Bellota variations

Bellota Text is the plainer sibling; the family called Bellota uses the ornamented letterforms by default.

Swashes sit behind OpenType

The swash capitals and the alternate shapes are stylistic sets, so they need software or CSS that can switch OpenType features on.

Light is thin

Light 300 has hairline-like strokes in the specimen and is easier to read at larger sizes; Bold is the darkest cut.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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