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Lilita One

A fat, slightly condensed display face with softened corners, in one style for headlines and short texts.

Display 1 style by Juan Montoreano OFL

Lilita One is a display typeface by Juan Montoreano with heavy strokes, softened corners and a slightly condensed build. Lilita One has one style, labelled Regular, and 228 glyphs for Western European Latin. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is meant for headlines and short texts, not for paragraphs.

Lilita One font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Juan Montoreano
Classification
Display
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
228
Languages checked
14 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002

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

Try Lilita One

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Lilita One Regular

About Lilita One

Lilita One is a fat-faced display typeface drawn by Juan Montoreano for headlines and short pieces of text. The specimen shows very heavy strokes with softened corners, counters reduced to small openings, and letters a little narrower than a regular width, so several heavy words still fit on a line. Both capitals and lowercase are present, and details such as the angled cuts on the stems and the curved leg of the a keep the shapes from looking mechanical. The family is a single font file, labelled Regular although it is as dark as a black weight, with 228 glyphs. Its character set covers the Latin subset, enough for English, French, German, Spanish and the Nordic languages. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Lilita One works

Game and app titles
The fat strokes and softened corners hold a title together over a busy background or illustration.
Posters for events and sales
The slightly condensed build fits more heavy letters per line than a wide black face would.
Food and snack packaging
Soft corners and thick stems give a product name a friendly, chunky look at shelf distance.
Thumbnails and social graphics
Counters stay open enough at large sizes for two or three words to read at a glance on a small preview.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 228 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
  • Estonian

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 (c) 2011 Juan Montoreano (juan@remolacha.biz), with Reserved Font Name Lilita

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 Lilita One

Archivo Narrow Sans Serif

Lilita One is a display face for headings; Archivo Narrow is a sans serif family with 4 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cormorant Serif

Lilita One is a display face for headings; Cormorant is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif

Lilita One is a display face for headings; Montserrat Alternates is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Lilita One 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: "Lilita One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LilitaOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style only
Lilita One is a single file. There is no lighter cut, no bold and no italic.
Named Regular, drawn heavy
The only style reports weight 400, yet the letters are as heavy as a black weight. Browsers will synthesise bold if asked, which thickens it further.
Limited language coverage
Letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian are not complete in the 228-glyph set.

FAQs

Is Lilita One free for commercial use?

Yes. Lilita One 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 and may not use the reserved name "Lilita One" without permission.

Who designed Lilita One?

Lilita One was designed by Juan Montoreano, who is also named in the copyright notice.

Does Lilita One have a bold or italic?

No. Lilita One has one style, Regular, which is already very heavy. There is no separate bold or italic.

Which languages does Lilita One support?

Lilita One includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Catalan and Estonian.

Is Lilita One good for body text?

No. Lilita One is a display face made for headlines and short texts; its heavy strokes and small counters close up at paragraph sizes.

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