Sofia Sans Semi Condensed

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Weights and styles

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

Sofia Sans Semi 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 Semi Condensed

Sofia Sans Semi Condensed is the second-widest member of Sofia Sans, a type system in four widths that began as a typeface for Bulgaria's capital. The design draws on the technical sans serifs of the early 1900s. The specimen shows upright, narrow letters with a tall x-height, taut curves, a strong vertical emphasis and softly rounded stroke corners, a detail the designers connect with hot-metal printing. This width saves space without the tightness of the two narrower versions. It comes as upright and italic variable files whose weight axis runs from 1 to 1000, with nine named weights from Thin to Black, 18 styles in all. The 938 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, and the family's OpenType features include small caps, alternative figure styles, arrows and circled numerals. Botio Nikoltchev and Ani Petrova are the designers; Lettersoup is the foundry.

Where Sofia Sans Semi Condensed works

Wayfinding and public information

Sofia Sans started as a city typeface, and the semi-condensed width fits long place names onto signs and maps.

Tables and dense interfaces

Narrow letters with a tall x-height keep columns compact, and the figure styles give a choice of numerals for data.

Bulgarian, Russian and Greek text

Cyrillic and Greek sit beside Latin in the same design, so multilingual layouts stay consistent.

Headlines in Black

The heavy end of the nine weights gives compact, strong titles that take less width than a normal-width sans.

Captions and labels

Small caps and circled numerals from the OpenType features help with legends, keys and numbered callouts.

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

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

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

Things to know

One width per family

Semi Condensed is a separate family. The normal, Condensed and Extra Condensed widths of Sofia Sans are installed on their own.

Weight axis from 1 to 1000

The variable axis reaches beyond the named weights at both ends, below Thin 100 and above Black 900.

Variable files only

The package holds one upright and one italic variable font; static instances come from the official source.

FAQs

Collections with Sofia Sans Semi 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.

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