Proza Libre

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Proza Libre Regular Italic
• Medium 500Proza Libre Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Proza Libre SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Proza Libre Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Proza Libre ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

About Proza Libre

Proza Libre is a humanist sans serif whose strokes thicken and flare slightly toward their ends, giving the letters some of the modelling of a serif face. In the specimen the capitals are wide and classical in proportion, the lowercase has open apertures and a two-storey a, and the heavier weights keep that calligraphic stress. According to the official notes it is the libre edition of a retail family by Bureau Roffa and was processed with ttfautohint so that it holds up on screens under different operating systems, Windows above all. Five weights run from Regular 400 to ExtraBold 800, each with an italic, 10 styles in all; the family is not a variable font. Its 348 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Jasper de Waard, a designer working in the Netherlands, leads the project. Proza Libre is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Proza Libre works

Body text on websites

Hinting made with ttfautohint keeps Regular and Medium crisp at text sizes, including on Windows screens.

Articles with emphasis

Every weight has its own italic, so quotations and titles inside a paragraph get a true italic instead of a slanted roman.

Interface text

Open apertures and five weights from Regular to ExtraBold cover labels, menus and headings in one family.

Headings with a calligraphic edge

Bold and ExtraBold keep the flared strokes, which gives titles more character than an even-stroked sans.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Proza Libre

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 Proza Libre 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: "Proza Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ProzaLibre-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Proza Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ProzaLibre-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Proza Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ProzaLibre-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Proza Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ProzaLibre-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 6 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Proza Libre 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=Proza+Libre:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular is the lightest weight

The range starts at 400 and ends at ExtraBold 800. There is no Light or Thin.

Ten static files

Proza Libre is not a variable font; each weight and italic is a separate file.

Latin scripts only

The character sets are Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Proza Libre

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

  Sans-serif families with open, pen-influenced letterforms that stay comfortable in paragraphs, documents and interface text.

Similar fonts

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