Saira Semi Condensed

Try Saira Semi Condensed

Weights and styles

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

About Saira Semi Condensed

Saira Semi Condensed is a sans serif family and one of the widths of the Saira type system, sitting between the normal Saira and Saira Condensed. Its round letters are built on a rounded rectangle instead of a circle: o, c and e have flat sides and tight corners, and the capitals follow the same squared construction. The slightly narrowed proportions fit more characters into a line than the normal width, and the lowercase is tall against the capitals. The family consists of nine separate static files, from Thin 100 to Black 900; it has no italics and is not a variable font. Each file holds 773 glyphs covering the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Hector Gatti designed the typeface and the Omnibus-Type team developed it. The files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with Saira as a reserved font name.

Where Saira Semi Condensed works

Navigation and interface labels

The narrowed width fits longer labels into menus, tabs and buttons, and Medium or SemiBold separates the active item from Regular text.

Tables and dashboards

Narrow, squared numerals keep columns of figures compact, and the lighter weights hold secondary values back.

Sports and gaming graphics

Flat-sided curves in ExtraBold and Black give scoreboards, team graphics and stream overlays a machined, technical look.

Headlines in short columns

Nine weights from Thin to Black let a headline, a deck and a caption share one family where the measure is tight.

Localised interfaces

The 773 glyphs include the accented letters of Vietnamese, Polish, Czech and Turkish, so translated screens keep the same typeface.

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

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

Things to know

No italics

Saira Semi Condensed has upright styles only. Emphasis has to come from a change of weight.

Static files, not variable

Each of the nine weights is a separate TTF file. The variable build, with weight and width axes, is published as the Saira family.

Reserved font name

The license notice reserves the name Saira, so a modified version has to be released under a different name.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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