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Signika

A low-contrast sans developed for wayfinding and signage, with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and a Grade axis.

Sans Serif 5 styles · variable by Anna Giedryś OFL

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Signika is a sans serif by Anna Giedryś, developed for wayfinding, signage and other settings where information must be clear. Signika is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and a Grade axis from -30 to 0, with five named weights and no italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Signika font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Anna Giedryś
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
5 5 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–700, Grade -30–0
Glyphs
1,414
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 2.003;gftools[0.9.32]
Used for
Body textInterfacesSignage

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Signika; the download contains the complete files.

Signika font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Signika specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Light 300Signika Light
  • Regular 400Signika Regular
  • Medium 500Signika Medium
  • SemiBold 600Signika SemiBold
  • Bold 700Signika Bold

Signika is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Signika

Signika is a sans serif family developed for wayfinding and signage. Its strokes vary little in thickness and the lowercase is tall, two choices the official notes connect with reading small text and reading from far away. In the specimen the stroke ends are cut at a slight angle, the l ends in a tail, and the a and g keep open, distinct shapes, which gives the face a gentle tone. The figures are designed as tabular. Signika is a variable font with two axes: weight, from 300 to 700, and Grade, from -30 to 0, added in July 2023 to deal with the optical effects of negative text setting. Named weights are Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold; there are no italics. The font contains 1,414 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Anna Giedryś is the designer.

Where Signika works

Wayfinding and signs
Low contrast and a tall lowercase were chosen for legibility at a distance, the conditions of corridor, station and campus signs.
Interface text
The same properties serve small labels, and the Grade axis fine-tunes stroke thickness without changing line lengths in a layout.
Information graphics
Tabular figures align in charts, timetables and price lists.
Maps and floor plans
The tailed l and clear a and g help separate similar shapes in small place names and room labels.
Public information leaflets
Light to Bold covers body text, subheads and warnings in forms, leaflets and notices.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,414 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2018 The Signika Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/Signika).

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Signika

Andada Pro Serif

Signika is sans serif and Andada Pro is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arvo Slab Serif

Signika is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Fira Code Monospace

Fira Code is a monospace family (5 weights) for code and figures next to Signika as the text face.

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 Signika 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Signika";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Signika-VariableFont_GRAD%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Signika with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Grade axis from -30 to 0
Grade is a second variable axis. The default is 0, and negative values make the strokes slightly thinner.
No italics
Signika has five upright weights and no italic styles.
The default instance is Light
The weight axis defaults to 300, so set the weight explicitly where software does not read the named instances.

FAQs

Is Signika free for commercial use?

Signika can be used in commercial projects without a fee under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also allows modification and redistribution, but the font files cannot be sold by themselves, and derivative versions keep the same license.

Who designed Signika?

Signika was designed by Anna Giedryś. The copyright notice names The Signika Project Authors.

How many weights does Signika have?

Signika has five named weights: Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700.

Is Signika a variable font?

Yes. Signika is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and a Grade axis from -30 to 0.

What does the Grade axis in Signika do?

The Grade axis of Signika adjusts stroke thickness between 0 and -30. The official notes say it was added in July 2023 for the optical effects of negative text setting.

Which languages does Signika support?

Signika includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Dutch, Portuguese and Vietnamese.

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