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Saira

A squared sans serif with two variable axes: weight from 100 to 900 and width from 50 to 125, plus italics.

Sans Serif 18 styles · variable by Omnibus-Type OFL

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Saira is a sans serif with squared, flat-sided curves, designed by Hector Gatti with the Omnibus-Type team. Saira is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and a width axis from 50 to 125, in roman and italic. Published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, it serves interfaces, headings and technical branding.

Saira font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Omnibus-Type
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
18 9 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900, Width 50–125
Glyphs
893
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.101
Used for
HeadlinesInterfacesBrandingTech

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Saira

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Saira; the download contains the complete files.

Saira font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Saira specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Saira Thin Thin Italic
  • ExtraLight 200Saira ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
  • Light 300Saira Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Saira Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Saira Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Saira SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Saira Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Saira ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Saira Black Black Italic

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

About Saira

Saira is a sans serif type system whose curves are drawn as rounded rectangles: the bowls of o, d and p have straight sides, and the stroke ends are cut flat. This is the normal-width family of the system. According to the official notes it was rebuilt in 2020 as a variable font with two axes, weight from 100 to 900 and width from 50 to 125, so one file reaches from narrow settings to expanded ones wider than the default of 100. Roman and italic each have nine named weights, Thin to Black, which gives 18 styles. The fonts hold 893 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Hector Gatti designed Saira and the Omnibus-Type team developed it. The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Saira works

Responsive headlines
The width axis from 50 to 125 lets a headline be narrowed on a phone and widened on a desktop screen without changing family.
Product interfaces
Squared counters and flat stroke ends hold their shape in small labels, while Medium and SemiBold mark the hierarchy.
Technology and motorsport branding
Flat-sided curves set in Black at an expanded width give a wordmark an engineered, mechanical character.
Emphasis in running text
Italics exist for every weight from Thin to Black, so captions and paragraphs can carry emphasis inside the same family.
Multilingual product pages
Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets cover language versions from Portuguese to Polish and Vietnamese.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 893 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

Character sets found in the files: 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2020 The Saira Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/Saira)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Saira

Amiri Serif

Saira is sans serif and Amiri is serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Antic Slab Slab Serif

Saira is sans serif and Antic Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

DM Mono Monospace

DM Mono is a monospace family (3 weights) for code and figures next to Saira as the text face.

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 Saira 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Saira-Italic-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Saira-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Saira with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

The default instance is Thin
The weight axis defaults to 100. Software that ignores the named instances shows Thin, so set the weight explicitly, for example font-weight: 400.
Two axes in two files
The download holds one variable file for the roman and one for the italic. Each contains both the weight axis and the width axis.
Width 100 is the normal width
Values below 100 narrow the letters down to 50, and values above it expand them up to 125.

FAQs

Is Saira free for commercial use?

Saira can be used in commercial projects without a fee under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also allows modification and redistribution, but the font files cannot be sold by themselves, and derivative versions keep the same license.

Who designed Saira?

Saira was designed by Hector Gatti and developed with the Omnibus-Type team. The copyright notice names The Saira Project Authors.

How many weights does Saira have?

Saira has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 18 styles. The variable files also allow any weight in between.

Is Saira a variable font?

Yes. Saira is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and a width axis from 50 to 125.

Which languages does Saira support?

Saira includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages, among them French, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish and Vietnamese.

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