Rambla

Try Rambla

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rambla Regular Italic
• Bold 700Rambla Bold Bold Italic

About Rambla

Rambla is a humanist sans serif made for texts of medium length. Its letters are a little narrower than usual, the lowercase is tall, and ascenders and descenders are kept short, so lines take little room in either direction. In the specimen the strokes thin slightly where curves meet stems, the capital Q has a tail that sweeps below the baseline, and the lowercase a and l end in a small curve to the right. The family has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, which makes four styles; it is not a variable font. Each font has 235 glyphs covering the basic Latin set, enough for languages such as Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. Martin Sommaruga designed Rambla, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Rambla as a Reserved Font Name.

Where Rambla works

Articles and blog posts

Narrow letters with a tall lowercase fit more words on a line while keeping text sizes readable.

Captions and sidebars

Short ascenders and descenders let lines sit close together in tight boxes.

Compact headlines

Bold at large sizes holds a long title in a narrow column.

Emphasis within text

True italics for both weights mark titles and stressed words without changing family.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Rambla

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 Rambla 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: "Rambla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rambla-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rambla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rambla-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rambla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rambla-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rambla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rambla-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Basic Latin only

The subset is Latin. Latin Extended is not covered, so check for the accented letters your language needs.

Regular and Bold only

There is no Light, Medium or Black in the family.

Static files

The four styles come as four separate TTF files, not as a variable font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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