Rufina

Try Rufina

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rufina Regular
• Bold 700Rufina Bold

About Rufina

Rufina is a serif typeface with strong contrast between thick stems and hairline joins. The official description says it combines several typographic styles, setting upright, high-contrast modern forms against the calligraphy of pens with a flexible tip. In the specimen this shows as ball terminals on a, c, f and r, thin flat serifs, and curves that swell smoothly instead of mechanically. The numerals are old-style figures: 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 dip below the baseline while 6 and 8 rise above the x-height. In the family name as set, f and i merge into a ligature. Rufina has two weights, Regular and Bold, with no italics, and is not a variable font. Each has 230 glyphs covering basic Latin and Western European accents. Martin Sommaruga is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rufina works

Editorial headlines

Thick stems against hairlines give a headline the look of a magazine title.

Standfirsts and short intros

The official description names text as well as headlines; a few lines in Regular keep the contrast readable.

Dates and prices in running copy

Old-style figures blend into lowercase text on menus, invitations and price lists.

Logotypes

Ball terminals and the fi ligature give a short name distinctive joins.

Cover lines in Bold

Bold 700 deepens the stems while keeping the hairlines, for a second level of emphasis.

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 Rufina

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

body {
  font-family: "Rufina", serif;
}

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

Things to know

No italics

Rufina has Regular and Bold only, both upright.

Old-style figures by default

Numerals vary in height, so columns of numbers do not sit on one line as lining figures would.

Basic Latin only

Rufina is listed with the Latin subset; too few Latin Extended characters are present for that subset, and the Turkish ğ is not in the character map.

FAQs

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