News Cycle Sans Serif
Boogaloo is a display face for headings; News Cycle is a sans serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Boogaloo
A narrow brush-lettering display face in one style, recalling 1960s Latin music record sleeves.
Boogaloo is a display typeface by John Vargas Beltrán with heavy, narrow, slightly tilted letters in the manner of American sign lettering. Boogaloo comes in one Regular style with 282 glyphs for the Latin character set. Boogaloo is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is used for posters, event titles and packaging with a 1960s flavour.
- Designer
- John Vargas Beltrán
- Classification
- Display
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 282
- Languages checked
- 16 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.002
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Boogaloo
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Boogaloo; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Boogaloo Regular
About Boogaloo
Boogaloo is a display typeface that imitates letters painted quickly with a flat brush. The shapes are narrow and heavy, lean a little to the right and end in blunt, slightly uneven strokes, so that words seem to bounce along the line. Upper and lower case are both present, and the numerals share the same slant. According to the official description John Vargas Beltrán began the design in 2010 as a companion to the Salsa typeface, taking as reference the American lettering seen on Latin music LP covers of the 1960s. The family is a single Regular font with 282 glyphs and is not a variable font. Its Latin character set includes the letters needed for Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Turkish, among others. Boogaloo is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Where Boogaloo works
- Concert and festival posters
- Slanted, bouncing capitals give the name of a band or a dance night the look of hand-painted lettering.
- Record sleeves and playlist covers
- The design refers to 1960s LP artwork, which suits album covers, playlist tiles and gig flyers that quote that period.
- Food and drink packaging
- Narrow, heavy letters fit a product name across a bottle label or snack pack at a large size.
- Titles in videos and cartoons
- Mixed-case words stay readable at title size, and the uneven stroke ends add a hand-made tone.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 282 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
- Slovenian
- 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
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2011, John Vargas Beltr�n� (www.johnvargasbeltran.com|john.vargasbeltran@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name Boogaloo.
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 Boogaloo
Andada Pro Serif
Boogaloo is a display face for headings; Andada Pro is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Prompt Sans Serif
Boogaloo is a display face for headings; Prompt is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.
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 Boogaloo 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: "Boogaloo";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Boogaloo-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Boogaloo", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Boogaloo with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<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=Boogaloo&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- Regular only
- Boogaloo consists of Regular 400 and nothing else: no bold and no italic.
- The slant is built in
- The one style already leans to the right, so emphasis cannot come from switching to an italic.
- Latin subset
- The 282 glyphs cover the Latin subset. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.
FAQs
Is Boogaloo free for commercial use?
Yes. Boogaloo is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted; the fonts cannot be sold by themselves, and derivatives remain under the same license. A modified version also may not use the reserved font name Boogaloo without permission.
Who designed Boogaloo?
Boogaloo was designed by John Vargas Beltrán, who is also named in the copyright notice of the license.
How many weights does Boogaloo have?
Boogaloo has one weight, Regular 400. There is no bold or italic.
What style of lettering is Boogaloo based on?
According to its official description, Boogaloo follows classic American lettering of the kind found on Latin music album covers of the 1960s.
Which languages does Boogaloo support?
Boogaloo includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Turkish.
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