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Signika Negative

The version of Anna Giedryś's signage sans tuned for light text on dark backgrounds, variable from 300 to 700.

Sans Serif 5 styles · variable by Anna Giedryś OFL

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Signika Negative is a sans serif by Anna Giedryś, an alternative cut of Signika adjusted for text reversed out of a dark background. Signika Negative is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and five named weights, without italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits signage, dark interfaces and captions.

Signika Negative 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
Glyphs
1,416
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 2.001
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 Negative; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

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

Signika Negative 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 Negative

Signika Negative is a sans serif family and the companion of Signika, a typeface developed for wayfinding and signage. According to the official notes, this version is adjusted for layouts where positive and reversed text appear side by side, because letters set light on dark tend to look heavier. The design has low stroke contrast and a tall lowercase, with gently angled stroke ends, a tail on the l and a two-storey a, which keep words clear at small sizes and from a distance. The figures are drawn as tabular. Signika Negative is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 300 to 700, and five named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. It has no italics. The font holds 1,416 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Anna Giedryś is the designer.

Where Signika Negative works

Dark-mode interfaces
The cut is adjusted for light letters on dark surfaces, so navigation bars and panels match positive text set in Signika.
Reversed signage panels
White lettering on coloured wayfinding boards keeps the stroke weight intended by the design.
Mixed positive and negative layouts
Using Signika on light areas and Signika Negative on dark ones evens out the apparent weight across a page.
Timetables and price boards
Tabular figures hold columns of times and prices in line on dark displays.
Captions over images
A tall lowercase and low contrast keep short lines legible when set over photographs or video.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,416 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 Negative

Cardo Serif

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

Crete Round Slab Serif

Signika Negative is sans serif and Crete Round is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

IBM Plex Mono Monospace

IBM Plex Mono is a monospace family (7 weights) for code and figures next to Signika Negative 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 Negative 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 Negative";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SignikaNegative-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
Signika Negative has upright styles only.
Weight range 300 to 700
The axis stops at Bold; there is no ExtraBold or Black, and nothing lighter than Light.
No grade axis
Signika Negative has the weight axis only. The Grade axis belongs to the Signika family.

FAQs

Is Signika Negative free for commercial use?

Yes. Signika Negative is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and modified versions must stay under the same license.

Who designed Signika Negative?

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

How many weights does Signika Negative have?

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

What is the difference between Signika and Signika Negative?

Signika Negative is the alternative version adjusted for reversed text, where light letters on a dark ground look thicker than the same letters set dark on light.

Is Signika Negative a variable font?

Yes. Signika Negative is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700.

Which languages does Signika Negative support?

Signika Negative includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Polish, Czech, German, French, Turkish and Vietnamese.

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