Saira Condensed

Try Saira Condensed

Weights and styles

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

About Saira Condensed

Saira Condensed is a sans serif family and one of four widths in the Saira system, alongside the normal width, Semi Condensed and Extra Condensed. In the specimen the letters are narrow with squared curves: o and e have nearly straight sides, strokes are even, and stroke ends are cut flat. The family has nine weights, Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Black, each supplied as a separate static file; there is no italic, and this package is not a variable font. Each font holds 773 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. According to the official notes Hector Gatti designed the typeface and the Omnibus-Type team developed it. Saira Condensed is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Saira Condensed works

Space-saving headlines

Narrow letters fit a long headline on one line, with Bold to Black for emphasis.

Tables and dashboards

Condensed figures and labels fit more columns across a screen.

Sports and motorsport graphics

Squared curves and nine weights suit timing screens, line-ups and race numbers.

Mixed-width systems

It shares its design with the other Saira widths, so a layout can change width between heading and text.

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

Fonts that pair with Saira Condensed

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 Condensed 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: "Saira Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaCondensed-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaCondensed-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaCondensed-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaCondensed-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 5 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Saira Condensed 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=Saira+Condensed:wght@100;200;300;400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Nine separate files

Each weight is its own static TTF; choose the ones you need.

No italic

All nine styles are upright.

One of four widths

Saira, Saira Semi Condensed and Saira Extra Condensed are separate families.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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