Sigmar One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sigmar One Regular

About Sigmar One

Sigmar One is a display face of extreme weight and deliberately loose drawing. In the specimen the strokes are so thick that the counters of A, B, O and R shrink to slits, the letter edges are slightly uneven, and stems lean at small, inconsistent angles, as if cut by hand. Typing lowercase gives smaller capitals instead of true lowercase forms, and the ampersand is drawn as a joined Et. The official notes call it a casual, display-only web font whose design draws on advertising type in pulp magazines of the mid twentieth century. The family consists of one Regular 400 file and is not a variable font. Its 582 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Vernon Adams designed Sigmar One, published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sigmar One works

Comic and pulp-style covers

The heavy, hand-cut letters come from pulp magazine advertising and bring that tone to a cover line.

Sale banners and stickers

Slit-like counters and thick strokes make a short word such as a price or offer fill its space.

Video thumbnails

Two or three words in Sigmar One remain readable when a thumbnail is shrunk, because the letters are nearly solid.

Event and party posters

The uneven angles give a title an informal, hand-made feel that suits fairs, parties and markets.

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

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

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

Things to know

No true lowercase

Lowercase keys produce small capitals, so every setting is in capitals of two sizes.

One very heavy style

The only file is named Regular 400, but its strokes are as thick as a black weight.

Counters close at small sizes

The openings inside letters are narrow in the specimen, so Sigmar One needs large sizes.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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