Economica

Try Economica

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Economica Regular Italic
• Bold 700Economica Bold Bold Italic

About Economica

Economica is a condensed sans serif family designed by Vicente Lamónaca. The official description presents it as the first digital typeface made in Montevideo, Uruguay, to reach international distribution, developed through most of 2007 with help from type designers across Latin America. It was planned for inkjet printing and for fitting more text into a line while keeping letters tall. In the specimen the rounds of o, c and e are flattened into nearly straight sides, apertures stay open, strokes are thin and even, and the tail of Q runs under the letter. Economica has four static styles: Regular and Bold, each with an italic. The fonts hold 259 glyphs in a Latin character set, including the letters for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and the Nordic languages. It is not a variable font.

Where Economica works

Headlines in narrow columns

The compressed letters keep a long headline on one line where a regular-width sans would wrap.

Captions and side notes

The open forms the designer describes keep small, tightly set text readable.

Space-saving print layouts

Economica was designed for inkjet output with the goal of using less width per line.

Navigation and tags

Regular and Bold in the same narrow width fit many menu items or labels in a row.

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
• 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

Fonts that pair with Economica

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

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

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

Things to know

Four static styles

Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic are separate files; there is no variable version.

Very narrow by design

The condensed width is the starting idea of the design, not an added width option. There is no normal-width companion.

Latin character set

The 259 glyphs form a Latin set. No Latin Extended subset is listed for the family.

FAQs

Collections with Economica

• Condensed fonts for headlines

  Narrow sans-serif and serif display fonts that set tall, compact headlines in limited width, from hairline to heavy.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts