Saira Extra Condensed

Try Saira Extra Condensed

Weights and styles

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

About Saira Extra Condensed

Saira Extra Condensed is a sans serif family that compresses the Saira design further than Saira Condensed: in the specimen the same alphabet takes clearly less line length, and the letters stand tall and tight, with straight-sided o and e and flat stroke ends. The official notes present Saira as a sans serif system spanning many weights and widths, and list this family with the normal width, Semi Condensed and Condensed. It has nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 as separate static files, no italic, and is not a variable font. Each font holds 773 glyphs in the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. Hector Gatti designed the typeface and the Omnibus-Type team developed it. Saira Extra Condensed is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Saira Extra Condensed works

Tall poster headlines

Extra-narrow capitals let a long title run at a large size across the width of a poster.

Mobile headers

A headline that would wrap in a normal-width face can stay on one line on a phone.

Scoreboards and tickers

ExtraBold and Black keep narrow letters heavy enough for scores and names in a tight strip.

Labels and tags

Narrow letters fit product names and specifications onto small labels.

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 Extra 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 Extra 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 Extra Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaExtraCondensed-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira Extra Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaExtraCondensed-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira Extra Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaExtraCondensed-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Saira Extra Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SairaExtraCondensed-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 Extra Condensed", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

Narrowest Saira width

Of the four widths named in the official notes, Extra Condensed is the tightest.

Nine static files

Each weight from Thin to Black is a separate TTF.

No italic

All styles are upright.

FAQs

Collections with Saira Extra Condensed

• Fonts for sports teams and jerseys

  A college block slab, squared condensed sans-serifs, speed-lined italics and an athletic script for team names, numbers and match graphics.

Similar fonts

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