Six Caps

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Six Caps Regular

About Six Caps

Six Caps is a very condensed sans serif display face drawn by Vernon Adams. The official description presents it as a pared-down, regularised take on older grotesque display lettering. In the specimen each letter is several times taller than it is wide, strokes keep an even thickness, and the curves of C, O and S are pressed into nearly straight sides. There is no true lowercase; typing lowercase gives capitals of a slightly lower height, which reads as small capitals when mixed with full ones. The family is one static Regular file with 386 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended character sets, including the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian. There is no bold, italic or variable version. Letters this narrow and closely fitted need large sizes to stay readable.

Where Six Caps works

Poster headlines

The narrow letters fit a long title into one line of a tall poster while keeping the letters large.

Mastheads and banners

Even stroke thickness and tight fitting give a dense, uniform band of text across a page header.

Headings on narrow screens

A headline that would wrap in a regular-width face often stays on one line on a phone.

Two-height titling

Mixing upper and lower case produces full and slightly shorter capitals, a small-caps effect without extra fonts.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: 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 Six Caps

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

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

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

Things to know

Capitals only

Six Caps contains no lowercase letterforms; lowercase input is drawn as shorter capitals.

One weight

Only Regular 400 exists. There is no bold, no italic and no variable axis.

Made for large sizes

In the specimen the counters are thin vertical slots, which close up visually when the type is set small.

FAQs

Collections with Six Caps

• Condensed fonts for headlines

  Narrow sans-serif and serif display fonts that set tall, compact headlines in limited width, from hairline to heavy.

Similar fonts

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