Ruda

Try Ruda

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ruda Regular
• Medium 500Ruda Medium
• SemiBold 600Ruda SemiBold
• Bold 700Ruda Bold
• ExtraBold 800Ruda ExtraBold
• Black 900Ruda Black

Ruda is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Ruda

Ruda is a sans serif typeface that began with one job in mind: text on product labels. Mariela Monsalve and Angelina Sanchez gave it an unusually tall x-height, capitals that stand only a little higher than the lowercase, and open shapes. In the specimen the letters are slightly narrow, the strokes are even and the lowercase nearly fills the line. The family is variable on one axis, weight, from 400 to 900, with six named weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Black. The official notes say it was rebuilt as a variable font in February 2020. There is no italic. The single variable file holds 625 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese character sets, which covers Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian as well as languages such as Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese.

Where Ruda works

Product labels and ingredient lists

Ruda was drawn for labels, and its tall x-height keeps small print readable on packaging.

Small interface text

The large lowercase and open shapes hold up in captions, badges and table cells.

Headings from the same family

Bold, ExtraBold and Black provide heavy headings above Regular text without a second typeface.

Latin and Cyrillic packaging

The Cyrillic character set lets one label design run in Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian.

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
• Vietnamese
• 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, latin, latin-ext, 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 Ruda

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 Ruda 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: "Ruda";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Ruda-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Ruda 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=Ruda:wght@400..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Ruda has upright styles only.

Weights start at Regular

The axis runs from 400 to 900. There is no light weight.

Short capitals

Capitals are only slightly taller than the lowercase, so capitalised words stand out less than in most sans serifs.

FAQs

Collections with Ruda

• Fonts for packaging and product labels

  Brush scripts, soft serifs and sturdy display faces for jars, boxes, bottles and tags, where a name has to work on a small curved surface.

Similar fonts

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