Secular One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Secular One Regular

About Secular One

Secular One is a sans serif typeface that pairs a Hebrew alphabet with a Latin one in the same humanist style. The official notes explain that when it appeared in 2016 few Hebrew sans serif text faces existed, and that Michal Sahar aimed for a design that is simple without being neutral, readable in small sizes and long paragraphs, and more eccentric when enlarged. Some of that shows in the Latin specimen: strokes are dark and gently modulated, the a is single-storey, and terminals are cut at an angle. There is a single style, named Regular though drawn noticeably dark, and no italic. A June 2023 update enlarged the glyph set, which now stands at 466 glyphs for Hebrew, Latin and Latin Extended. The project is led by Michal Sahar in Tel Aviv, and the font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Secular One works

Hebrew and English headings

Both scripts were drawn together in one weight, so a bilingual title keeps an even colour across the line.

Brand identities

The official notes point to branding: at large sizes the single-storey a and angled terminals give a name character.

Buttons and short interface text

The dark single weight keeps labels visible without needing a bold.

Intro paragraphs

The design was meant to stay readable in paragraphs, which suits a short lead-in above text set in a lighter family.

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

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: hebrew, latin, latin-ext. 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 Secular One

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

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

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

Things to know

One weight only

Secular One has no bold or italic, so emphasis cannot come from a heavier cut of the same family.

Hebrew script included

The font carries a Hebrew character set beside Latin and Latin Extended.

No Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese

Those character sets are not part of Secular One.

FAQs

Collections with Secular One

• Fonts that support Hebrew

  Open-license families with Hebrew and Latin drawn to work together: text sans and serifs, rounded and display designs.

Similar fonts

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