PT Sans Narrow

Try PT Sans Narrow

Weights and styles

• Regular 400PT Sans Narrow Regular
• Bold 700PT Sans Narrow Bold

About PT Sans Narrow

PT Sans Narrow is a condensed humanist sans serif. Its letters keep the open shapes of PT Sans but are compressed sideways, so the lowercase alphabet in the specimen occupies roughly four fifths of the width of the regular cut. The official notes list it as the pair of narrow styles in the PT Sans superfamily, intended for economical setting; the package holds Regular 400 and Bold 700. Like the rest of the family it descends from Russian sans serif types of the second half of the twentieth century, updated with humanist details. Its designers are Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov; ParaType released it in 2009 as part of the Public Types of Russian Federation project. Each font holds 720 glyphs in the latin, latin-ext, cyrillic and cyrillic-ext subsets and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where PT Sans Narrow works

Tables and data-heavy pages

Narrow letters fit more characters into each column while staying in the PT Sans family.

Navigation bars and tabs

Menu items in several languages, including Russian, fit a fixed width more easily.

Long headlines in tight columns

Bold 700 keeps a multi-word headline on fewer lines.

Timetables, forms and labels

Economical setting was the stated purpose of the narrow styles.

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 Narrow

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

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

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

Things to know

No italics

Only Regular and Bold are available in the narrow width.

About one fifth narrower than PT Sans

Measured on the specimens, the lowercase alphabet of the narrow cut is around eighty percent as wide as that of PT Sans.

Static files

PT Sans Narrow is not a variable font; width cannot be adjusted continuously.

Latin and Cyrillic only

Greek and Vietnamese are not included.

FAQs

Collections with PT Sans Narrow

• Narrow sans-serif fonts for tables and tight layouts

  Condensed and semi-condensed text families that fit more characters per line in tables, sidebars, forms and mobile screens.

Similar fonts

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