Prata

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Prata Regular

About Prata

Prata is a Didone typeface: a serif design with vertical stress and an abrupt change from thick stems to hairline strokes. Teardrop terminals finish letters such as a, c, f, r and y, and small triangular serifs sit on the thin strokes, giving them a firm end. The curves are soft and full, which sets up a tension with the sharp details. Because the hairlines are so thin, the official notes place the design at display sizes. Ivan Petrov drew Prata for Cyreal. It exists in one Regular style with no italic or bold, and holds 555 glyphs in the latin, cyrillic, cyrillic-ext and vietnamese subsets; there is no latin-ext subset, so several Central European languages are not complete. The font was added to Google Fonts in 2011 and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Prata works

Magazine headlines and mastheads

Thick stems against hairlines produce the strong contrast that carries a title at large sizes.

Jewellery, perfume and fashion branding

Teardrop terminals and fine triangular serifs give a short brand name a polished finish.

Titles in Russian and Ukrainian

Cyrillic and extended Cyrillic are included, so a Didone headline is possible in those languages.

Restaurant menus and invitations

Section titles in Prata stand over details set in a plainer text face.

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
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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, 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 Prata

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular only

Prata has one style. There is no bold, no italic and no variable axis.

Thin strokes at small sizes

The hairlines are drawn for display use. In small text or reversed out of a dark background they can become too faint.

Turkish and Polish are not in the checked list

Without a latin-ext subset, the verified languages are limited to English, French (apart from the rare capital Ÿ), German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, the Nordic languages, Catalan, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

FAQs

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