Pliant

Try Pliant

Weights and styles

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

Pliant 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 Pliant

Pliant is a sans serif family with plain, round letterforms. The specimen shows a single-storey a, a simple g with an open tail, circular bowls and strokes of almost constant thickness; the lowercase is generously spaced. The family is delivered as two variable fonts, one upright and one italic. Each has a weight axis from 100 to 900 with nine named instances from Thin to Black, and a width axis from 100 to 125 that widens the letters from their normal proportion. Counting uprights and italics, that makes 18 styles. The fonts hold 1,207 glyphs and cover the Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Greek Extended subsets. The designer credited in the name table is Jona Saucedo, with Non Foundry as manufacturer, and the copyright notice names The Pliant Project Authors. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Pliant works

Product interfaces

Nine weights with italics cover labels, body copy and emphasis from one family.

Sites in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek

All three scripts, including their extended subsets, come in the same files and the same weights.

Wide display headings

Raising the width axis toward 125 broadens a heading without changing typeface.

Brand systems

A span from Thin 100 to Black 900 gives enough contrast between a wordmark, headings and small print.

Articles and documentation

Regular with its true italic handles running text, citations and emphasis.

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
• 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. 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 Pliant

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

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

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

Things to know

Two variable files

The package has one variable font for upright styles and one for italics, each with weight and width axes.

Width only goes wider

The width axis starts at 100 and ends at 125. There is no condensed range.

Single-storey a

The lowercase a is the round, single-storey form, which can resemble o at very small sizes.

FAQs

Collections with Pliant

• Variable fonts with a width axis

  Variable families in which letter width is adjustable as well as weight, from slight narrowing for copy-fitting to a full condensed-to-wide range.

Similar fonts

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