Caladea

Try Caladea

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Caladea Regular Italic
• Bold 700Caladea Bold Bold Italic

About Caladea

Caladea is a serif family for text, built from the earlier typeface Cambo by the same designers. The official notes list what changed: a more condensed width, new metrics, a set of four styles and a larger character set. In the specimen the letters are sturdy and slightly narrow, stroke contrast is low, serifs are short and firmly bracketed, and the lowercase is large against the capitals, which keeps a paragraph dark and even. Numerals are lining figures, and the ampersand takes an Et-like form. The four styles are Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, supplied as static files; Caladea is not a variable font. Each font holds 463 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. Carolina Giovagnoli and Andrés Torresi designed the family for HT Fonts, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Caladea works

Office documents and reports

Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic are the four styles a word processor expects, so headings and emphasis work with its standard buttons.

Long-form reading

Low contrast and a large lowercase give paragraphs an even colour at text sizes.

Dense pages

The narrower width, one of the stated changes from Cambo, fits more characters on a line.

Documents in Central European languages

Latin Extended coverage supplies the letters for Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Caladea

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

body {
  font-family: "Caladea", serif;
}

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

Things to know

Two weights only

Caladea offers Regular 400 and Bold 700. There is no Light, Medium or Black.

Glyph count differs from the official notes

The notes mention a character set of 418; the current font files hold 463 glyphs each.

Latin only

Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Caladea

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

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