Platypi

Try Platypi

Weights and styles

• Light 300Platypi Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Platypi Regular Italic
• Medium 500Platypi Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Platypi SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Platypi Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Platypi ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

Platypi 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 Platypi

Platypi is a serif typeface named after the Australian platypus, an animal known for its odd mix of features. The typeface does something similar: it attaches the sharp, weighty wedge serifs normally found on display faces to curves and proportions that belong to a text face. The specimen shows the result in the triangular feet of A and l, the pointed tail of y and the spur on a. According to the official notes, the heavier weights taper their strokes more and raise the contrast, so ExtraBold looks more dramatic than Light. The family is variable along a weight axis from 300 to 800 and comes as two files, upright and italic, giving six weights and 12 styles. Its 704 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and the notes mention Indigenous Australian languages. David Sargent designed Platypi; the manufacturer field reads Bolt Cutter Type.

Where Platypi works

Magazine features and long reads

Text proportions keep paragraphs steady, while the wedge serifs give the page a recognisable texture.

Headlines in ExtraBold

The heavier weights increase tapering and contrast, which makes the pointed serifs a feature at large sizes.

Editorial brand identities

Six weights with italics let one family cover a masthead, body copy, captions and pull quotes.

Vietnamese and Australian-language publishing

The glyph set includes Vietnamese, and the notes state support for Indigenous Australian languages.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Platypi

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 Platypi 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: "Platypi";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Platypi-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Platypi";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Platypi-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Platypi 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=Platypi:ital,wght@0,300..800;1,300..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

Upright and italic are separate variable fonts, each spanning weights 300 to 800.

No Thin or Black

The range stops at Light 300 at one end and ExtraBold 800 at the other.

Contrast changes with weight

Heavier weights are drawn with more stroke tapering than lighter ones, so the look shifts across the range.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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