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League Spartan

A geometric sans from The League of Moveable Type, based on Matt Bailey's Spartan, variable from 100 to 900.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Matt Bailey, Tyler Finck OFL

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League Spartan is a geometric sans serif from The League of Moveable Type, its interpretation of Matt Bailey's Spartan. League Spartan is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and no italic, holding 633 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headlines, logos and brand text.

League Spartan font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Matt Bailey, Tyler Finck
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
633
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 2.002
Used for
HeadlinesLogosBrandingBoldGeometric

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

Try League Spartan

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

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

League Spartan 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 League Spartan

League Spartan is a geometric sans serif typeface built from circles and straight lines. The o is close to a full circle, the lowercase a and g are single-storey, and the capitals A, V and W end in sharp points; in the heavy weights the round letters pack into dense, sturdy words. The League of Moveable Type based the design on Spartan, a typeface by Matt Bailey that goes back to American geometric sans serifs of the early twentieth century. Matt Bailey and Tyler Finck are credited as designers. The family is a single variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900, which yields nine weights from Thin to Black. No italic is included. The font holds 633 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and it was added to Google Fonts in 2021.

Where League Spartan works

Logos and wordmarks
Round bowls and a single-storey a turn a short name into a set of simple geometric shapes.
Bold headlines
ExtraBold and Black give compact, heavy titles for posters, covers and hero sections.
Social media graphics
A few words in a heavy weight stay readable in a small square image.
Presentation titles
Thin to Black in one file lets a deck move from a light subtitle to a heavy title.
Section headings on websites
Medium and SemiBold mark headings above a separate text face.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 633 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2020 The League Spartan Project Authors (https://github.com/theleagueof/league-spartan)

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 League Spartan

Andada Pro Serif

League Spartan is sans serif and Andada Pro is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arvo Slab Serif

League Spartan is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Fira Code Monospace

Fira Code is a monospace family (5 weights) for code and figures next to League Spartan 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 League Spartan 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: "League Spartan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LeagueSpartan-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
League Spartan has upright styles only.
One variable file
All nine weights come from a single file with a weight axis from 100 to 900.
Single-storey a and g
The round a can be mistaken for an o at small sizes, which is worth checking before using it for long text.

FAQs

Is League Spartan free for commercial use?

Yes. League Spartan is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed League Spartan?

League Spartan is credited to Matt Bailey and Tyler Finck. The League of Moveable Type based it on Spartan by Matt Bailey.

How many weights does League Spartan have?

League Spartan has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, and no italic.

Is League Spartan a variable font?

Yes. League Spartan is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900.

Which languages does League Spartan support?

League Spartan includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

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