Hepta Slab

Try Hepta Slab

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Hepta Slab Thin
• ExtraLight 200Hepta Slab ExtraLight
• Light 300Hepta Slab Light
• Regular 400Hepta Slab Regular
• Medium 500Hepta Slab Medium
• SemiBold 600Hepta Slab SemiBold
• Bold 700Hepta Slab Bold
• ExtraBold 800Hepta Slab ExtraBold
• Black 900Hepta Slab Black

Hepta Slab is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Hepta Slab

Hepta Slab is a slab serif family that revives the antique style of type found in specimens from Bruce and Co., with Antique 307 as its main model. The letters are wide and round, stroke contrast is low, and the serifs are flat rectangular slabs: hairlines in Thin, heavy blocks in Black, where the counters of a and e close down to small openings. The family ships as one variable file whose weight axis runs from 1 to 900. Nine named weights mark the steps from Thin 100 to Black 900, and the axis continues below Thin towards a hairline. According to the official notes, the lightest and heaviest weights are meant for display sizes and the middle of the range for text. There is no italic. The font holds 1,281 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Hepta Slab works

Magazine headlines

ExtraBold and Black set wide, dark headlines whose block serifs fill the line.

Hairline display type

The weight axis reaches down to 1, which gives very thin slab letters for large titles and covers.

Body text in editorial layouts

Regular and Medium have open counters and low contrast, the middle weights the family intends for text.

Pull quotes and subheads

Any value on the axis can be chosen, so a quote can sit exactly between the text weight and the headline weight.

Posters with a nineteenth-century flavour

The design revives antique slab types from foundry specimens, which suits bills, labels and announcements in that manner.

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 Hepta Slab

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 Hepta Slab 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: "Hepta Slab";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HeptaSlab-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 1 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Hepta Slab", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Hepta Slab 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=Hepta+Slab:wght@1..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The weight axis starts at 1

The variable axis runs from 1 to 900, lower than the lightest named weight, Thin 100. The file's default position is 200.

No italic

Hepta Slab has upright styles only.

One variable file

The package contains the variable font; separate static files for each weight are available from the official source.

FAQs

Collections with Hepta Slab

• Slab serif fonts

  Slab-serif families with block-like serifs, from geometric and typewriter-flavored designs to sturdy text faces with italics.

Similar fonts

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