Piazzolla

Try Piazzolla

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Piazzolla Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Piazzolla ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Piazzolla Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Piazzolla Regular Italic
• Medium 500Piazzolla Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Piazzolla SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Piazzolla Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Piazzolla ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Piazzolla Black Black Italic

Piazzolla 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 Piazzolla

Piazzolla is a serif family designed to make economical use of space in press media and other publications. Its compact letters allow small sizes and tight leading while lines stay solid, and the specimen shows an angular character: curves break into flat cuts, serifs are short and sharp, and the heavy weights turn into dense, sculpted display letters. It is a variable font with two axes, weight from 100 to 900 and optical size from 8 to 30, so the same family adapts from footnotes to headlines. Roman and italic each have nine named weights, Thin to Black, 18 styles in all. The fonts hold 2,277 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. Juan Pablo del Peral designed Piazzolla for HT Fonts (Huerta Tipografica), and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Piazzolla works

Newspaper and magazine text

Compact proportions fit more words per column at small sizes with tight leading.

Footnotes and listings

The optical size axis goes down to 8, tuning the letters for very small print.

Headlines with a voice

Near the top of the optical size range, at 30, the angular cuts in the curves become a visible feature of large titles.

Books in several scripts

Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese sets sit alongside Latin, with italics throughout.

Annual reports

Nine weights with matching italics cover text, tables, captions and cover lines from one family.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, 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

Fonts that pair with Piazzolla

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 Piazzolla 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: "Piazzolla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Piazzolla-Italic-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Piazzolla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Piazzolla-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Piazzolla 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=Piazzolla:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

The download has one variable TTF for roman and one for italic, each with the weight and optical size axes.

Optical size 8 to 30

Software with automatic optical sizing picks the value from the font size; otherwise it can be set by hand.

Defaults sit at the extremes

The axis defaults in the files are weight 100 and optical size 30, so set both explicitly when using the variable fonts.

No static files in the package

Static instances exist at the official source but are not part of this download.

FAQs

Collections with Piazzolla

• Fonts for newspapers and magazines

  Headline serifs, compact text faces and news gothics for editorial layouts in print and on news sites.

Similar fonts

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