Brygada 1918

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Brygada 1918 Regular Italic
• Medium 500Brygada 1918 Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Brygada 1918 SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Brygada 1918 Bold Bold Italic

Brygada 1918 is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Brygada 1918

Brygada 1918 is a serif typeface revived from Polish metal type. According to its official notes, the project marked one hundred years of Polish independence in 2018 and draws on two sources: an entry in the 1954 catalogue of the National Type Foundry and matrices found in 2016 at the Book Arts Museum. In the specimen the letters show clear contrast between thick and thin strokes, bracketed serifs, ball terminals on a, r and y, and a two-storey g; the figures stand at capital height. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700, named Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, and a separate italic file, eight styles altogether. Its 1,466 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek. The credits list Capitalics, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka, Ania Wieluńska and Przemysław Hoffer.

Where Brygada 1918 works

Books and long-form text

Regular and Medium with their italics give a text weight, a slightly darker alternative and emphasis within one design.

Polish and Central European publishing

The character set includes the letters for Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian, in keeping with the typeface's Polish origin.

Editions in more than one script

Cyrillic and Greek sit beside Latin in the same fonts, so a bilingual page does not need a second family.

Magazine headings and pull quotes

SemiBold and Bold enlarge the ball terminals and stroke contrast that are easy to miss at text size.

Commemorative and museum print

A face revived from a 1954 foundry catalogue fits exhibition captions, anniversaries and heritage publications.

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
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, 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 Brygada 1918

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 Brygada 1918 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: "Brygada 1918";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Brygada1918-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Brygada 1918";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Brygada1918-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Brygada 1918", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Brygada 1918 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=Brygada+1918:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The weight range ends at Bold

The axis covers 400 to 700 only. There is no Light and nothing heavier than Bold.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate variable fonts; each carries the whole 400 to 700 range.

Lining figures in the specimen

The numerals shown are as tall as the capitals, which suits headings and tables.

FAQs

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