# Imprima font

> A single-weight humanist sans by Eduardo Tunni with ink traps and wide counters for small print sizes.

Imprima is a sans serif typeface by Eduardo Tunni, built with wide counters and ink traps so that it prints cleanly at small sizes on ordinary home printers. Imprima has one Regular style with 430 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Imprima is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits forms, labels and short printed documents.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Eduardo Tunni
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 430
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Imprima
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/imprima
- Tagged for: Interfaces, Editorial

## About Imprima

Imprima is a sans serif typeface designed by Eduardo Tunni with small-size printing in mind. The official notes point to three devices: broad counters, firm joins where curves meet stems, and ink traps, the small notches that stop ink from filling tight corners on inexpensive home printers. In the specimen the lowercase a and g are single-storey, the k and y carry a slight handwritten bend, and stroke contrast is low. Those details become visible when the face is set large. The family consists of one Regular style, with no bold or italic, and it is not a variable font. Its 430 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, and an update in February 2023 enlarged the glyph set and added fractions. Imprima is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with Imprima as a Reserved Font Name.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2012 The Imprima Project Authors (https://github.com/etunni/imprima), with Reserved Font Name "Imprima"

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Home-printed documents**: Ink traps and open counters keep letters from clogging when a page comes off an inkjet or a low-cost laser printer.
- **Forms and small labels**: Wide counters hold the shapes of a, e and o apart at the small sizes used for field labels and footnotes.
- **Recipes and price lists**: The 2023 glyph set includes fractions, so halves and quarters can be set as single characters.
- **Large titles**: Set big, the single-storey a and the bent k give a heading a character that small text hides.

## Things to know

- **One style only**: Imprima has a single Regular style at weight 400. Emphasis cannot come from a bold or an italic of the same family.
- **Reserved Font Name**: The license notice reserves the name Imprima, so a modified version has to be published under a different name unless permission is given.
- **Latin scripts only**: Latin and Latin Extended are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not part of the font.

## FAQs

### Is Imprima free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Imprima may be used, modified and redistributed in personal and commercial work; it cannot be sold on its own, and altered versions remain under the same license and may not use the Reserved Font Name without permission.

### Who designed Imprima?

Imprima was designed by Eduardo Tunni. The copyright notice names The Imprima Project Authors.

### How many weights does Imprima have?

Imprima has one weight, Regular 400, with no italic.

### Is Imprima good for printing at small sizes?

That is what Imprima was drawn for. According to the official notes, its broad counters, strong joins and ink traps let it hold up at very small sizes, even on cheap home printers.

### Which languages does Imprima support?

Imprima includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Polish, Turkish and Romanian.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/imprima (trendhub)
