Sofia Sans

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Sofia Sans Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Sofia Sans ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Sofia Sans Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Sofia Sans Regular Italic
• Medium 500Sofia Sans Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Sofia Sans SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Sofia Sans Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Sofia Sans ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Sofia Sans Black Black Italic

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

About Sofia Sans

Sofia Sans is a sans serif that began, according to the official notes, as a typeface for Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, and grew into a system of four widths; this is the normal one. The notes trace its model to technical sans serifs of the early twentieth century. In the specimen that shows as upright, slightly narrow letters with taut curves, softened corners and a tall lowercase, with straight-sided parentheses and straight slanted quotation marks. The family is a variable font: its weight axis runs from 1 to 1000, and nine named weights from Thin to Black come in roman and italic, 18 styles. Each font holds 938 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek, and the official description mentions small caps, several figure styles, arrows and circled numerals. Lettersoup publishes the family under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sofia Sans works

City and institutional identities

The design started as a municipal typeface, and its range from Thin to Black covers logotypes, documents and signs.

Products for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek readers

Three scripts in one family let Bulgarian, Greek and English versions of a site share a typeface.

Interface and body text

A tall lowercase and slightly narrow letters keep paragraphs and labels economical with space.

Signage and maps

Arrows and circled numerals listed among the font's features serve directions, legends and numbered points.

Editorial typography

Small caps and several figure styles support bylines, tables and running text.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, greek, 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 Sofia Sans

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 Sofia Sans 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: "Sofia Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SofiaSans-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 1 1000;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sofia Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SofiaSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 1 1000;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sofia Sans 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=Sofia+Sans:ital,wght@0,1..1000;1,1..1000&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Weight axis from 1 to 1000

The axis extends beyond the named Thin 100 and Black 900, and its default is 400.

Normal width of a larger system

Semi Condensed, Condensed and Extra Condensed versions are published as separate families.

Two variable files

The roman and the italic are separate variable fonts.

FAQs

Collections with Sofia Sans

• Fonts for signage and wayfinding

  Sans-serif families developed for signs, road lettering and information displays, readable at a distance and at an angle.

Similar fonts

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