PT Sans Caption

Try PT Sans Caption

Weights and styles

• Regular 400PT Sans Caption Regular
• Bold 700PT Sans Caption Bold

About PT Sans Caption

PT Sans Caption is a humanist sans serif made for small type. Set next to PT Sans, its letters are visibly wider and further apart, changes that keep words open when the size drops. It belongs to the PT Sans superfamily, which the official notes describe as four basic styles, two caption styles for small sizes and two narrow styles; this package holds the caption pair, Regular 400 and Bold 700. The design takes Russian sans serifs of the later twentieth century as its base and combines them with contemporary humanist features. Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov designed it, and ParaType released it in 2009 within the Public Types of Russian Federation project. Each font has 720 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where PT Sans Caption works

Photo captions and footnotes

Wider letters and looser spacing were added for exactly these small sizes.

Interface labels and tooltips

Open, widely spaced letterforms stay distinct at small screen sizes, and Bold marks the active item.

Maps, charts and diagrams

Short labels remain readable when reduced, in Latin or Cyrillic.

Fine print beside PT Sans text

As a member of the same superfamily, it matches PT Sans body copy while reading more easily at reduced size.

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

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. 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 PT Sans Caption

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 PT Sans Caption 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: "PT Sans Caption";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSansCaption-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "PT Sans Caption";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSansCaption-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "PT Sans Caption", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves PT Sans Caption 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=PT+Sans+Caption:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

PT Sans Caption has Regular and Bold only. Italics exist in the main PT Sans family.

Wider than PT Sans

The same line takes more room in the caption cut; in the specimens the lowercase alphabet runs about fifteen percent longer.

Not variable

The two styles are separate static files.

Latin and Cyrillic only

There is no Greek or Vietnamese subset.

FAQs

Collections with PT Sans Caption

• Fonts for subtitles and video captions

  Plain, sturdy sans-serif families for subtitles and captions, chosen for clear letters at small sizes and, in most cases, wide language coverage.

Similar fonts

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