Sevillana

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sevillana Regular

About Sevillana

Sevillana is an upright display face with the rhythm of joined handwriting and ornament on nearly every capital. In the specimen the capitals begin with a spiral curl at the upper left, the lowercase stands vertical with rounded arches and tall looped ascenders, and several numerals end in the same small curls. Strokes stay close to even in thickness. The name refers to a folk music style of Seville, and the official description traces the letterforms to commemorative ceramic plates fixed to house walls in Andalusia: every plate is handmade and different, and the typeface generalises what they have in common. Olga Umpeleva drew it for Brownfox as a headline face for medium and large sizes. The single Regular file holds 227 glyphs for Western European Latin and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sevillana works

Restaurant and bar menus

Curled capitals set dish categories and the venue name, a use the official description names directly.

Concert and festival posters

The spiral terminals read as ornament at poster size, where each capital has room to show its curl.

Shop signs and plaques

The design comes from painted ceramic wall plates, so a house name or shop sign returns it to its source.

Labels for food and crafts

A product name of one or two words takes on a hand-painted look without any extra illustration.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Sevillana

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

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

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

Things to know

Drawn for medium and large sizes

The official description calls Sevillana a headline typeface; the curls close up when it is set small.

One style

Sevillana has only Regular 400, with no bold or italic.

Two credits

Google Fonts lists Brownfox as designer, and the name table inside the font names Olga Umpeleva, who drew it for Brownfox.

Western European Latin only

Polish ł, Czech č and Turkish ğ and ş are not in the font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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