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Orienta

A spacious single-weight sans by Eduardo Tunni, drawn to stay legible at very small text sizes.

Sans Serif 1 style by Eduardo Tunni OFL

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Orienta is a spacious sans serif typeface by Eduardo Tunni, designed to remain legible at very small text sizes through open counters and generous spacing. Orienta has one style, Regular, with 441 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits captions, labels and short interface text.

Orienta font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Eduardo Tunni
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
441
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b);gftools[0.9.23]
Used for
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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 Orienta; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Orienta Regular

About Orienta

Orienta is a sans serif with roomy proportions: wide letters, large open counters and loose spacing that keeps shapes apart when the type is small. The specimen shows a tall lowercase, a double-storey a, open apertures on c, e and s, and strokes with only slight modulation; the tails of a, l and t bend gently at the baseline. The official notes stress the balance between letter shapes and the white space inside and around them as the source of its legibility at small sizes, and point to stroke details that become visible in titles. Orienta has a single Regular style with 441 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. A February 2023 update enlarged the glyph set and added fractions. The designer is Eduardo Tunni, named Eduardo Rodriguez Tunni in the font.

Where Orienta works

Captions and footnotes
Open counters and loose spacing are the features the official notes credit for legibility at very small sizes.
Labels in apps and forms
A single Regular weight covers field labels, hints and helper text where one tone is enough.
Maps, diagrams and charts
Wide, clearly separated letters keep place names and axis labels readable when reduced.
Recipes and measurements
The 2023 update added fractions, so quantities do not need to be faked with a slash.
Quiet headings
Set large, the gently bent stroke endings give a title detail without ornament.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 441 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

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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2012 The Orienta Project Authors (https://github.com/etunni/orienta) with Reserved Font Name 'Orienta'

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 Orienta

Alegreya SC Serif

Orienta is sans serif and Alegreya SC is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arvo Slab Serif

Orienta is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Azeret Mono Monospace

Azeret Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Orienta as the text face.

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

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Regular only
Orienta has no bold or italic. Emphasis must come from size, colour or a second family.
Takes space
The letters are wide and loosely spaced, so a line holds fewer characters than in a narrower sans.
Updated in February 2023
According to the official notes, that update brought a bigger glyph set, fractions and small aesthetic changes.

FAQs

Is Orienta free for commercial use?

Orienta is free to use in commercial and personal work under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits modification and redistribution; the font cannot be sold on its own, and derivatives remain under the same license and may not use a Reserved Font Name without permission.

Who designed Orienta?

Orienta was designed by Eduardo Tunni; the font's name table gives his name as Eduardo Rodriguez Tunni.

How many weights does Orienta have?

Orienta has one weight, Regular 400. There is no bold and no italic.

Is Orienta good for small text?

Small text is what Orienta was designed for: its open counters and spacious setting are intended to keep letters distinct at very small sizes. With only one weight, it cannot supply bold or italic emphasis.

Which languages does Orienta support?

Orienta includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian and other European languages written in Latin script.

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