Podkova

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Podkova Regular
• Medium 500Podkova Medium
• SemiBold 600Podkova SemiBold
• Bold 700Podkova Bold
• ExtraBold 800Podkova ExtraBold

Podkova is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Podkova

Podkova is a slab serif whose strokes and serifs keep one thickness, with terminals sliced on a diagonal. The name is Russian for horseshoe. In the specimen the letters are wide and open, the slabs are short and square, and details such as the angled foot of a, the cut tops of d and k and the slanted tail of y give the face a voice of its own. The wide proportions are meant to help legibility at small sizes, while the unusual shapes serve display typography. Ilya Yudin designed the original in 2010. Alexei Vanyashin refined it in January 2017 and extended the weight range, making the bold a little lighter, and the family became a variable font in September 2019. One file spans weights 400 to 800 in five named steps. There is no italic. Its 961 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese.

Where Podkova works

Headlines in ExtraBold

At 800 the square slabs and diagonal cuts turn a short title into a strong typographic shape.

Captions and small text

Wide, open letters with even stroke weight were intended to stay legible when set small.

Sites in Russian and English

Cyrillic and Latin are both included, with the letters for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

Posters and labels

The unusual letterforms give a few words of display type a recognisable character.

Body text with matching heads

Regular for paragraphs and SemiBold or Bold for headings come from the same variable file.

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

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-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 Podkova

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 Podkova 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: "Podkova";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Podkova-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Podkova 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=Podkova:wght@400..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Podkova is upright only. Italic text will be slanted artificially by the software.

Weights start at Regular

The axis runs from 400 to 800, so there is no light weight.

One variable file

The package contains a single variable font; static instances are available from the official source.

FAQs

Collections with Podkova

• Slab serif fonts

  Slab-serif families with block-like serifs, from geometric and typewriter-flavored designs to sturdy text faces with italics.

Similar fonts

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