Lexend Exa

Try Lexend Exa

Weights and styles

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

Lexend Exa 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 Lexend Exa

Lexend Exa is a sans serif family that belongs to Lexend, a collection of seven font families developed with the Shaver-Troup Formulations and intended to improve reading proficiency. In the specimen the letters are very wide and set with generous gaps: round o, c and e are nearly as broad as they are tall, the lowercase is large, and a short word stretches across a long line. Shapes are plain and geometric, with a single-storey a and an open, hooked t. The family is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 100 to 900, and nine named weights from Thin to Black; according to the official notes, the Lexend fonts became variable in June 2021 through work by Font Bureau. There is no italic. The font holds 845 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Lexend Exa works

Short headings and labels

The wide letters and loose spacing give a few words presence without large type.

Interface text that must stay distinct

Broad, open shapes separate similar letters in navigation items and buttons.

Reading-support materials

The Lexend collection was developed with reading proficiency as its stated goal.

Wordmarks

Nine weights from Thin to Black let a wide, evenly spaced name be drawn light or heavy.

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 Lexend Exa

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 Lexend Exa 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: "Lexend Exa";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LexendExa-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Lexend Exa 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=Lexend+Exa:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Takes a lot of horizontal space

Letter width and spacing are both generous, so a line holds far fewer characters than in an ordinary text sans.

No italic

Lexend Exa has upright styles only.

One variable file

The package contains a single variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900; static files are available from the official source.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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