Faustina

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Faustina Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Faustina Regular Italic
• Medium 500Faustina Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Faustina SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Faustina Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Faustina ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

Faustina 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 Faustina

Faustina is a serif family made for editorial typography: books, newspapers and magazines, both printed and on screen. The specimen shows moderate stroke contrast, short and sturdy serifs with an angled cut on the heads of letters such as n and u, a fairly tall lowercase and slightly narrow proportions that set text economically. Alfonso Garcia designed it as part of the Omnibus-Type Press Series. In September 2019 the family was converted into a variable font; it now has a weight axis from 300 to 800 with six named weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, each with an italic, for 12 styles in two files. The fonts hold 800 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese and are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Faustina works

Newspaper and magazine articles

The family was drawn for press work, and its slightly narrow letters fit more words in a column.

Books and long reads

Regular and Medium with their italics cover running text, emphasis and titles of works.

Headlines and decks

Bold and ExtraBold match the text letterforms, so headline and body share one design.

Captions and footnotes

Light 300 offers a quieter setting for secondary text at sizes where it remains clear.

Online publications

The official notes name online use next to print, and two variable files keep the font payload low.

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

Fonts that pair with Faustina

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 Faustina 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: "Faustina";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Faustina-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Faustina";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Faustina-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Faustina 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=Faustina:ital,wght@0,300..800;1,300..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Six weights, twelve faces

Each weight from Light to ExtraBold has an upright and an italic.

Axis from 300 to 800

There is no Thin and no Black; ExtraBold is the heaviest setting.

Latin and Vietnamese

Cyrillic and Greek are not included among the 800 glyphs.

FAQs

Collections with Faustina

• Fonts for newspapers and magazines

  Headline serifs, compact text faces and news gothics for editorial layouts in print and on news sites.

Similar fonts

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