Sofia Sans Condensed

Try Sofia Sans Condensed

Weights and styles

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

Sofia Sans Condensed 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 Condensed

Sofia Sans Condensed is a narrow sans serif and one width of the Sofia Sans system, which the official notes say was first designed as a typeface for Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The letters are tall and upright with straight-sided curves and softly rounded corners; the lowercase is high against the capitals, and round letters such as o and e are compressed into ovals with flat flanks. The family is a variable font whose weight axis runs from 1 to 1000, with nine named weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 in roman and italic, 18 styles. The fonts hold 938 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek. The official description lists small caps, several figure styles, arrows and circled numerals among the OpenType content. Botio Nikoltchev and Ani Petrova of Lettersoup are the designers.

Where Sofia Sans Condensed works

Headlines in narrow columns

Compressed letters fit a long headline into a mobile screen or a newspaper column, in any weight up to Black.

Bulgarian, Russian and Greek text

Cyrillic and Greek are drawn alongside Latin, so one condensed family covers all three scripts.

Tables and listings

Narrow letters and several figure styles keep timetables, fixtures and price lists compact.

Wayfinding and city information

The system originated as a typeface for a city, and its upright, space-saving letters suit signs and public notices.

Dense interface panels

The tall lowercase keeps labels readable where sidebars and filters leave little horizontal room.

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 Condensed

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

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

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

Things to know

Weight axis from 1 to 1000

The axis is wider than the named range of 100 to 900, so values lighter than Thin and heavier than Black can be set.

One of several widths

Sofia Sans, Sofia Sans Semi Condensed and Sofia Sans Extra Condensed are separate families of the same system.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate variable files; each covers the full weight axis.

FAQs

Collections with Sofia Sans Condensed

• Narrow sans-serif fonts for tables and tight layouts

  Condensed and semi-condensed text families that fit more characters per line in tables, sidebars, forms and mobile screens.

Similar fonts

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