Spectral SC

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Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Spectral SC ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Spectral SC Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Spectral SC Regular Italic
• Medium 500Spectral SC Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Spectral SC SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Spectral SC Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Spectral SC ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

About Spectral SC

Spectral SC is a small-caps serif family, the companion to Spectral, a design that the official notes describe as intended first for screens, text-heavy layouts and long-form reading. The specimen shows a bookish face with sharp, thin serifs, visible contrast between stems and hairlines, and compact, calm proportions. Seven weights run from ExtraLight 200 to ExtraBold 800, and every weight has an italic, which gives 14 styles. They are separate static fonts; there is no variable version in the package. Each file holds 1,446 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. The catalogue names Production Type as designer, and the name table credits Jean-Baptiste Levee; the project was commissioned by Google Fonts. Spectral SC is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Spectral SC works

Running heads and bylines

A small-caps family gives folios, bylines and section labels a quieter texture than full capitals.

Acronyms and opening lines

Set beside Spectral, it supplies matching small capitals for abbreviations and the first words of a chapter.

Book and essay titles

ExtraLight and Light show the thin serifs at display sizes, while Bold and ExtraBold make dense, dark title lines.

Long reading on screens

The design was drawn for screen-first, text-rich pages, with Regular and Medium for the main copy.

Multilingual editions

Cyrillic and Vietnamese sets are included in all 14 fonts.

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
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Spectral SC

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 Spectral SC 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: "Spectral SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpectralSC-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Spectral SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpectralSC-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Spectral SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpectralSC-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Spectral SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpectralSC-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 10 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Spectral SC", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Spectral SC 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=Spectral+SC:ital,wght@0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Fourteen static files

The download contains one TTF per style, about 3.7 MB in total; choose only the styles a project needs.

A companion family

Spectral SC is published separately from Spectral, so both must be loaded to mix the two.

No Greek

The non-Latin coverage is Cyrillic; Greek is not among the listed character sets.

FAQs

Collections with Spectral SC

• Fonts with small capitals

  Families issued as small-caps cuts, where the lowercase keys give capitals at x-height: for acronyms, headings, credits and refined body text.

Similar fonts

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