Orelega One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Orelega One Regular

About Orelega One

Orelega One is a display typeface in the Clarendon manner: a very heavy serif with thick, bracketed slabs and round ball terminals. Its name is Esperanto for “large-eared”, and the feature is easy to find in the specimen, where the ear of the g swells into a large drop and the a, c, f and r end in big round balls. Strokes are thick with a visible but moderate contrast, counters are small, and the numerals are equally heavy. The official notes describe the design as modelled on an existing extra-bold slab serif but drawn anew throughout, with many aesthetic changes. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 590 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic. Haruki Wakamatsu is credited as designer, and Orelega One is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Orelega One works

Poster and banner headlines

Thick slabs and small counters make a short title very dark and visible from a distance.

Packaging and labels

Ball terminals and the swollen ear of the g give a product name a jovial, old-shopfront character.

Cyrillic headlines

A Cyrillic character set in the same heavy style lets a title run in Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian.

Logos and mastheads

One or two words are enough for the oversized ears to become the recognisable detail.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 Orelega One

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 Orelega 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.

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Orelega One 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=Orelega+One&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One heavy style

Although the style is labelled Regular 400, the letters are extra-bold in appearance; no lighter cut or italic exists.

Where the name comes from

Orelega joins the Esperanto parts for ear, an augmentative and an adjective ending.

FAQs

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