Convergence

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Convergence Regular

About Convergence

Convergence is an upright italic sans serif: its letters stand vertically, but several of them are built the way italic letters are. In the specimen the a is single-storey, the e and g follow cursive construction, and the stems of n, m, h and u end in a small outward turn at the baseline while their tops stay plain. Stroke contrast is low and the lowercase is tall against the capitals. According to the official description, two designers with differing ideas, Nicolás Silva and John Vargas Beltrán, drew the glyphs so that upright and italic styles meet in one design without blending into each other, and Ludovico degli Arrighi's writing on humanistic cursive was among their references. The family is one Regular file holding 238 glyphs for Western European Latin, published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Convergence works

Headings with a written rhythm

Cursive a, e and g on vertical stems give titles the movement of an italic without its slant.

Intro paragraphs and pull quotes

Low stroke contrast and a large x-height keep the Regular readable in standfirsts, quotes and other short passages.

Wordmarks

The closed entry stroke of the r and the turned feet on n, m and u give a name set in Convergence a distinct outline.

Western European language projects

The 238 glyphs hold the letters for English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and the Nordic languages.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

Fonts that pair with Convergence

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 Convergence 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: "Convergence";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Convergence-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Convergence 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=Convergence&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One file, one weight

Convergence ships as Regular 400 only. There is no bold, and no separate italic, because the design already merges upright and italic.

Feet below, plain tops above

The official description notes small serif-like endings on the lower half of the letters and plain sans serif terminals on the upper half; the specimen shows them on n, m, h and u.

Coverage ends at Western Europe

Turkish ğ and ş, Polish ą and ę and Czech č are not in the font, and French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

FAQs

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