Patua One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Patua One Regular

About Patua One

Patua One is a slab serif typeface with low stroke contrast and thick serifs. Although its only style is labelled Regular 400, the letters are dark and compact, closer in colour to a bold than to a text weight. The serifs are heavy but curve where they meet the stems, which takes the stiffness out of the slabs. Lowercase letters stand tall against the capitals, the g is single-storey, and the numerals carry the same weight as the letters. The official notes describe a text slab meant for small sizes that still makes a visual impact. The font holds 234 glyphs in the basic Latin subset, enough for English and Western European languages such as French, German, Spanish and Icelandic. LatinoType holds the copyright, the name table credits Luciano Vergara, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Patua One works

Blog and news headlines

One dark, low-contrast style holds a headline together on screen without a separate bold cut.

Packaging and labels

Curved slab serifs give a product name a sturdy but friendly tone on jars, tins and tags.

Buttons and short callouts

The design was intended for small sizes, and its thick strokes keep a two-word label readable when set small.

Posters and event titles

Compact letter widths fit several words on a line while the heavy strokes stay visible from a distance.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Patua 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 Patua 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: "Patua One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PatuaOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

One style only

Patua One ships as a single Regular file. There is no lighter weight, bold or italic, so emphasis has to come from size or colour.

Basic Latin only

The font covers the latin subset with 234 glyphs. Turkish, Polish, Czech and other Central European languages are not among those whose letters were checked as complete.

Regular in name, heavy in appearance

The file is registered at weight 400, yet the specimen shows strokes as thick as a bold in most text families.

FAQs

Collections with Patua One

• Fonts for packaging and product labels

  Brush scripts, soft serifs and sturdy display faces for jars, boxes, bottles and tags, where a name has to work on a small curved surface.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All slab serif fonts