Magra

Try Magra

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Magra Regular
• Bold 700Magra Bold

About Magra

Magra is a sans serif made to save space while staying legible. Its lowercase is tall in relation to the capitals and its stems are sturdy, two properties the makers link to good behaviour at small sizes. The specimen adds the humanist side: stroke ends are cut at a slant, M has splayed legs, the ampersand is built on an E shape, and the figures are old-style, with 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 dipping below the baseline. Letters are a little narrow, which is where the economy comes from. Magra has Regular 400 and Bold 700 and no italic, as static files with 399 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets. The catalogue credits FontFuror, the name table names Viviana Monsalve as designer, and the font is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Magra and Magra Pro as reserved font names.

Where Magra works

Small text in tight layouts

A large x-height and robust stems keep captions, footnotes and sidebars readable when space is short.

Interface text

Slightly narrow letters fit labels and table cells, and Bold marks headers.

Corporate documents

The makers describe the personality as neutral, which fits reports, forms and stationery.

Text with running figures

Old-style numerals blend dates and amounts into sentences instead of standing out like capitals.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Magra

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 Magra 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: "Magra";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Magra-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Magra";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Magra-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Magra 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=Magra:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular and Bold only

There are two styles and no italic; browsers will synthesise a slant if one is requested.

Figures are old-style

The numerals in the specimen vary in height, so columns of numbers do not align the way lining figures do.

Credits differ

The catalogue and the copyright name FontFuror; the designer field in the font files names Viviana Monsalve.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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