Solway

Try Solway

Weights and styles

• Light 300Solway Light
• Regular 400Solway Regular
• Medium 500Solway Medium
• Bold 700Solway Bold
• ExtraBold 800Solway ExtraBold

About Solway

Solway is a slab serif typeface drawn with strokes of nearly even thickness. Its slabs are rounded at the ends, corners are softened and letters such as a, f, j, r and y finish in ball terminals, which the specimen shows clearly in the tail of the y and the top of the f. The letters are fairly wide, with open, round bowls. The family has five static weights: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and ExtraBold. There is no italic and no variable file. Its 227 glyphs cover basic Latin and the main Western European languages. The official notes describe the tone as playful and name lifestyle brands and nature, travel and food blogs as intended uses. The designer credit is Mariya Lish with The Northern Block; the font's name table gives Mariya V. Pigoulevskaya.

Where Solway works

Lifestyle and food brands

Rounded slabs and ball terminals give a wordmark a soft, homely tone, the use its makers had in mind.

Blog headings and intros

Bold and ExtraBold carry headings while Light or Regular sets the introduction beneath them.

Menus and labels

Even stroke thickness keeps item names legible, and five weights separate dishes, descriptions and prices.

Short reading text

Regular with its open bowls works for captions and short paragraphs, as long as no italic is needed.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Solway

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 Solway 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: "Solway";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Solway-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Solway";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Solway-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Solway";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Solway-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Solway";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Solway-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 1 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Solway", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Solway 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=Solway:wght@300;400;500;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

All five styles are upright; emphasis has to come from a heavier weight.

Weights jump from Medium to Bold

The steps are 300, 400, 500, 700 and 800. There is no SemiBold 600.

Western European Latin only

Solway has 227 glyphs. French is covered except for the rare capital letter Ÿ, and no Latin Extended set is included.

FAQs

Collections with Solway

• Slab serif fonts

  Slab-serif families with block-like serifs, from geometric and typewriter-flavored designs to sturdy text faces with italics.

Similar fonts

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