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Manuale

An editorial text serif from Omnibus-Type: variable, six weights from Light to ExtraBold, each with an italic.

Serif 12 styles · variable by Omnibus-Type OFL

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Manuale is a serif family from Omnibus-Type, drawn by Eduardo Tunni and Pablo Cosgaya with books, newspapers and magazines in mind. Manuale is a variable font with six weights from Light 300 to ExtraBold 800, each with an italic: 12 styles. Manuale is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits long reading in print and online.

Manuale font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Omnibus-Type
Classification
Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
12 6 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–800
Glyphs
820
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002
Used for
Body textEditorialBold

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

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Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Light 300Manuale Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Manuale Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Manuale Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Manuale SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Manuale Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Manuale ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

Manuale is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Manuale

Manuale is a serif family made for editorial work. It is part of the Press Series of Omnibus-Type, and its designers, Pablo Cosgaya and Eduardo Tunni, intended it for books, newspapers and magazines, both printed and online. In the specimen the letters are sturdy and slightly narrow, with a tall lowercase, moderate contrast between thick and thin strokes and short, firm serifs; joins are a little angular, which keeps the texture crisp. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 800. Six named weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, each have an italic, giving 12 styles in two variable files. The fonts hold 820 glyphs and cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Manuale is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Manuale works

Book and long-form text
Regular and its italic were drawn for continuous reading, with a tall lowercase and firm serifs that survive small sizes.
Newspaper and magazine layouts
Six weights let body copy, standfirsts, subheads and headlines come from one family.
Online articles
The design brief covers screen as well as print, and the variable files deliver every weight in two downloads.
Captions and footnotes
Medium and SemiBold add a little colour to small captions without jumping to Bold.
Vietnamese and Central European editions
Its 820 glyphs include Vietnamese and Latin Extended letters, so translated editions keep the same typeface.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 820 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 2019 The Manuale Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/Manuale)

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 Manuale

Encode Sans Expanded Sans Serif

Manuale is serif and Encode Sans Expanded is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Lekton Monospace

Lekton is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Manuale as the text face.

Google Sans Flex Sans Serif

Manuale is serif and Google Sans Flex is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

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 Manuale 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: "Manuale";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Manuale-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Manuale";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Manuale-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Manuale", serif;
}

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Weight range is 300 to 800
The variable axis starts at Light and stops at ExtraBold. There is no Thin or Black.
Two variable files
One file holds the upright styles and one the italics; both carry the full weight axis.
Latin scripts only
Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Is Manuale free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Manuale may be used, modified and redistributed in personal and commercial work; it cannot be sold on its own, and altered versions remain under the same license.

Who designed Manuale?

Manuale was designed by Pablo Cosgaya and Eduardo Tunni, according to the official description and the font's name table. The catalogue credits their foundry, Omnibus-Type.

How many weights does Manuale have?

Manuale has six named weights, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700 and ExtraBold 800, each with an italic. That makes 12 styles.

Is Manuale a variable font?

Yes. Manuale is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 800, in separate upright and italic files.

Which languages does Manuale support?

Manuale includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

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