# Orienta font

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

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.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Eduardo Tunni
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 441
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orienta
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/orienta
- Tagged for: Interfaces, Branding, Minimalist

## 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.

## License

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

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/orienta (trendhub)