Sail

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sail Regular

About Sail

Sail is a display typeface in a slanted, high-contrast style: thick main strokes, hairline connections and round ball terminals. The lowercase in the specimen is dense and dark, with letters that stand apart instead of joining, and the figures are old-style, rising and dropping around the x-height. The capitals are a different matter. Most begin or end in a thin looping swash, so A, S, Q and R spread well beyond their own width. The official description assigns the face to headlines, display and poster work. The family is one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 222 glyphs cover the basic Latin set for languages such as French, Spanish, German and Italian. Miguel Hernandez designed Sail, the copyright belongs to LatinoType, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sail works

Poster and magazine headlines

Swashed capitals followed by the dark lowercase give a short title strong contrast at large size.

Restaurant and boutique logos

A capital with a hairline loop works as the lead letter of a wordmark.

Navigation and menu headings

The official description singles out the capitals for display text and web navigation.

Invitation headings

A name or a single line gains a formal look from the thick and thin strokes; details need a plainer face.

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 Sail

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sail 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=Sail&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals carry swashes

A run of capitals, as in the specimen's alphabet row, overlaps and tangles. Use them one at a time before lowercase.

One style

Regular is the only cut. It is already slanted, and there is no upright or bold.

Hairlines need size

The thin loops are a small fraction of the main stroke width and fade at small sizes or in reversed print.

Western Latin coverage

Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian letters are not among the 222 glyphs.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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