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Homenaje

A narrow grotesque sans modelled on the bronze cemetery lettering of Recoleta and Chacarita in Buenos Aires.

Sans Serif 1 style by Constanza Artigas Preller, Agustina Mingote OFL

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Homenaje is a narrow sans serif by Constanza Artigas Preller and Agustina Mingote, inspired by bronze lettering in the Recoleta and Chacarita cemeteries of Buenos Aires. Homenaje has one Regular style with 240 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. Homenaje is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits compact headlines, signage and labels.

Homenaje font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Constanza Artigas Preller, Agustina Mingote
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
240
Languages checked
13 see the list
Last updated
version 1.100
Used for
HeadlinesPostersCondensedSignage

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Homenaje; the download contains the complete files.

Homenaje font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Homenaje specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Homenaje Regular

About Homenaje

Homenaje is a condensed grotesque sans serif. Its designers took their model from the cast bronze letters on tombs in two Buenos Aires districts, Recoleta and Chacarita, and the name, Spanish for tribute, acknowledges the craftsmen who made that lettering. The specimen shows tall, tight forms: round letters such as O, C and e have straight vertical sides, strokes are nearly uniform, the lowercase is high in relation to the capitals, and quotation marks are plain vertical ticks. The narrow set saves horizontal space, which the official notes present as economy in setting. The family holds one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 240 glyphs belong to the basic Latin subset, enough for Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and other Western European languages. Constanza Artigas Preller and Agustina Mingote are the designers, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Homenaje works

Tight headlines
Straight-sided, narrow letters fit many characters into a column, useful for long titles in Spanish or Portuguese.
Plaques and signage
The forms come from cast bronze lettering, so names, dates and room labels on plates suit the design.
Posters with stacked lines
A tall lowercase and uniform strokes make dense blocks when several short lines are stacked.
Menus, tickets and price tags
Condensed figures and capitals save space on small printed pieces.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 240 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

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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2016 The Homenaje Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/Homenaje), with Reserved Font Name 'Homenaje’.

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Homenaje

Alegreya SC Serif

Homenaje is sans serif and Alegreya SC is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

BioRhyme Slab Serif

Homenaje is sans serif and BioRhyme is slab serif (7 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

B612 Mono Monospace

B612 Mono is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Homenaje as the text face.

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 Homenaje 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Homenaje";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Homenaje-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Homenaje with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style
Homenaje has a single Regular cut, with no bold or italic.
Basic Latin subset only
Western European accents are present, but Latin Extended is not, so letters such as ğ, ş, č and ő are missing.
Reserved Font Name
The license reserves the name Homenaje, which modified versions may not use without permission.

FAQs

Is Homenaje free for commercial use?

Yes. The SIL Open Font License 1.1 lets Homenaje be used for personal and commercial jobs, embedded, modified and redistributed. The font cannot be sold on its own, though, and any modified version has to stay under the same license.

Who designed Homenaje?

The designers of Homenaje are Agustina Mingote and Constanza Artigas Preller.

What does the name Homenaje mean?

Homenaje is Spanish for tribute. The designers chose it to honour the lettering artists behind the bronze letters that inspired the typeface.

How many weights does Homenaje have?

Homenaje has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic.

Which languages does Homenaje support?

Homenaje includes the letters needed for English and Western European languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Swedish. Central European and Turkish letters are not included.

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