Enriqueta

Try Enriqueta

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Enriqueta Regular
• Medium 500Enriqueta Medium
• SemiBold 600Enriqueta SemiBold
• Bold 700Enriqueta Bold

About Enriqueta

Enriqueta is a serif typeface conceived as a hybrid: from the Egyptian, or slab, style it takes sturdiness and strong serifs, and from roman types its proportions and humanist softness. It was designed for silkscreen printing, a process based on a mesh grid, and the official notes argue that the same qualities carry over to pixel-based screens. The specimen shows blunt slab-like serifs, low stroke contrast, a slightly narrow build and old-style numerals that rise and fall with the lowercase. There are four weights, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700; Medium and SemiBold were added in a July 2019 update. The family has no italic and is not a variable font. Its 415 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. The name table credits Viviana Monsalve and Gustavo Ibarra, the copyright notice names FontFuror, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Enriqueta works

Screen-printed posters and textiles

Blunt serifs and low contrast were drawn to survive the mesh of silkscreen printing.

Body text on screens

The official notes extend the same reasoning to pixel grids, and the four weights allow text and emphasis from one family.

Article headlines

SemiBold and Bold keep the strong serifs visible at title sizes.

Captions with dates and numbers

Old-style numerals blend into lowercase text instead of standing at capital height.

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 Enriqueta

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 Enriqueta 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: "Enriqueta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Enriqueta-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Enriqueta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Enriqueta-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Enriqueta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Enriqueta-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Enriqueta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Enriqueta-SemiBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Enriqueta 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=Enriqueta:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Enriqueta has four upright styles. Emphasis has to come from a heavier weight.

Old-style figures

The numerals in the specimen have ascenders and descenders, which is less convenient in tables.

Classed here as a slab serif

The official catalogue files Enriqueta under Serif, while its own description calls it a slab serif hybrid.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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