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Cabin

A humanist sans serif with near-monoline strokes, variable in weight (400–700) and width (75–100).

Sans Serif 8 styles · variable by Impallari Type, Rodrigo Fuenzalida OFL

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Cabin is a humanist sans serif family from Impallari Type, inspired by the typefaces of Edward Johnston and Eric Gill. Cabin is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and a width axis from 75 to 100, with true italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits text and interfaces.

Cabin font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Impallari Type, Rodrigo Fuenzalida
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 4 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 400–700, Width 75–100
Glyphs
718
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 3.001
Used for
Body textInterfacesBranding

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Cabin

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Cabin; the download contains the complete files.

Cabin font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Cabin specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Cabin Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Cabin Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Cabin SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Cabin Bold Bold Italic

Cabin 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 Cabin

Cabin is a humanist sans serif that takes its starting point from the typefaces of Edward Johnston and Eric Gill and adds modern proportions and touches of the geometric sans. In the specimen the strokes are almost monoline, thinning only slightly at the top and bottom of curves, the O is close to a circle, the bowls of b, p and q are round, and the g is single-storey. Cabin comes as two variable fonts, a roman and a true italic, each with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and a width axis from 75 to 100 that narrows the design to condensed. Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold with their italics give eight styles. The fonts have 718 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Impallari Type and Rodrigo Fuenzalida are credited, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cabin works

Website body text
Round, open letters and nearly even strokes give Regular a calm texture in paragraphs, with a true italic for emphasis.
Interface labels
Medium and SemiBold add small steps of emphasis for buttons and navigation without jumping to Bold.
Condensed headings and tables
Lowering the width axis towards 75 fits longer strings into narrow columns while staying in the same family.
Small-business branding
The humanist shapes with geometric touches look friendly on signs, cards and websites.
Vietnamese and European text
The official notes describe full Latin coverage for Vietnamese alongside Western and Central European languages.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 718 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

Character sets found in the files: 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2018 The Cabin Project Authors (https://github.com/impallari/Cabin.git)

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 Cabin

Libre Bodoni Serif

Cabin is sans serif and Libre Bodoni is serif (4 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Bree Serif Slab Serif

Cabin is sans serif and Bree Serif is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

B612 Mono Monospace

B612 Mono is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Cabin as the text face.

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 Cabin 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: "Cabin";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cabin-Italic-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cabin";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cabin-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Cabin", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Cabin with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Weights start at Regular
The weight axis covers 400 to 700. There are no light weights and nothing above Bold.
Width axis only narrows
Width runs from 75 to 100, from condensed up to the normal width.
Two variable files
Roman and italic are separate variable fonts, each with both axes.

FAQs

Is Cabin free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Cabin may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed; it cannot be sold by itself, and a modified version keeps the same license.

Who designed Cabin?

Cabin is credited to Impallari Type and Rodrigo Fuenzalida; the font files name Pablo Impallari as designer.

How many weights does Cabin have?

Cabin has four named weights, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic, for eight styles.

Is Cabin a variable font?

Yes. Cabin is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and a width axis from 75 to 100.

Does Cabin have a condensed version?

Yes, through its width axis. Setting the width of Cabin to 75 gives the condensed form.

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