# Bellota Text font

> The plainer cut of Kemie Guaida's low-contrast Bellota sans: three weights with italics and swash capitals in a stylistic set.

Bellota Text is a low-contrast sans serif by Kemie Guaida, the calmer of the two Bellota variations. Bellota Text has three weights, Light, Regular and Bold, each with an italic, and 1,300 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Bellota Text is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits friendly body copy, labels and short headings.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Kemie Guaida
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 6 (Light 300, Regular 400, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 1300
- Character sets: cyrillic, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-05
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bellota+Text
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/bellota-text
- Tagged for: Body text, Branding, Packaging, Casual

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2019 The Bellota Project Authors (https://github.com/kemie/Bellota-Font)

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Bellota Text free for commercial use?

Bellota Text can be used in commercial and personal work under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits modification and redistribution; the font cannot be sold by itself, and derivatives stay under the same license.

### Who designed Bellota Text?

Bellota Text was designed by Kemie Guaida. The copyright notice names The Bellota Project Authors.

### How many weights does Bellota Text have?

Bellota Text has three weights, Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, and each has an italic, which makes six styles.

### What is the difference between Bellota and Bellota Text?

They are two variations of one design. Bellota Text defaults to the simpler letterforms, while Bellota shows the ornamented ones; stylistic sets move between the two looks.

### Which languages does Bellota Text support?

Bellota Text includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian and Bulgarian.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/bellota-text (trendhub)