Sofia Sans Extra Condensed

Try Sofia Sans Extra Condensed

Weights and styles

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

Sofia Sans Extra 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 Extra Condensed

Sofia Sans Extra Condensed is a very narrow sans serif with tall lowercase letters, upright stems and softly rounded corners. It is one of four widths in the Sofia Sans system, beside Normal, SemiCondensed and Condensed, which according to the official notes began as a typeface for the city of Sofia and takes its cue from the technical sans serifs of the early twentieth century. The download has two variable files, roman and italic, whose weight axis runs from 1 to 1000; nine named weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 sit on it, 18 styles in total. The 938 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek, and the official description lists small caps, several figure styles, arrows and circled numerals among the OpenType features. The name table credits Botio Nikoltchev and Ani Petrova of Lettersoup. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sofia Sans Extra Condensed works

Headlines in narrow columns

The extra-condensed width fits a long headline on one line of a mobile screen or a single newspaper column.

Wayfinding and signs

The family started as a city typeface, and its narrow letters with a tall lowercase put long place names on a small panel.

Posters in Cyrillic or Greek

Cyrillic and Greek are drawn in the same narrow proportions, so a title keeps its shape across Bulgarian, Russian, Greek and Latin-script versions.

Dense tables and labels

Several figure styles and narrow letters keep column headers and numeric data compact.

Stacked display typography

Nine weights from Thin to Black let lines of different lengths be balanced by weight when words are stacked.

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

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

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

Things to know

Weight axis from 1 to 1000

The variable axis extends beyond the named weights: values below Thin 100 and above Black 900 can be set where variable fonts are supported.

Width is fixed

There is no width axis. The Normal, SemiCondensed and Condensed widths of Sofia Sans are separate families.

Cyrillic Extended is incomplete

Standard Cyrillic and Greek are covered. The Cyrillic Extended set is not complete in these files.

FAQs

Collections with Sofia Sans Extra Condensed

• 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 sans serif fonts