Lexend Peta

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Weights and styles

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

Lexend Peta 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 Peta

Lexend Peta is a sans serif typeface with unusually wide letters and very open spacing. In the specimen every character has room around it: round letters come close to full circles, the a is single-storey, and a line of text takes far more width than the same words in a standard sans. It belongs to Lexend, which the official notes describe as seven families created to improve reading proficiency and developed using Shaver-Troup Formulations, likening the approach to prescription glasses for short-sighted readers. According to the same notes, all Lexend fonts became variable in June 2021 through work by Font Bureau. Lexend Peta's weight axis runs from 100 to 900, with nine named weights from Thin to Black and no italics. The 845 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Credits name Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion.

Where Lexend Peta works

Short, spaced-out headings

A few words in Lexend Peta fill a line by themselves because both letters and gaps are wide.

Wordmarks with built-in tracking

The open spacing gives a name the look of letterspaced capitals without manual adjustment.

Reading-support material

The Lexend families were developed to improve reading proficiency, and Peta is a very widely spaced member of the set.

Titles on slides and screens

Nine weights from Thin to Black allow a light label and a heavy title in the same wide style.

Labels in several languages

Latin Extended and Vietnamese cover Turkish, Polish, Czech and Vietnamese.

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 Peta

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

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

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

Things to know

It uses a lot of width

In the specimen the family name alone spans most of the line; long paragraphs will run to many more lines than usual.

No italics

Lexend Peta has nine upright weights only.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name RevReading Lexend.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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