# Spectral SC font

> The small-caps companion to Production Type's Spectral: a screen-first text serif in seven weights with italics.

Spectral SC is the small-caps companion to Spectral, a serif typeface made by Production Type for long reading on screens. Spectral SC has seven weights, ExtraLight 200 to ExtraBold 800, each with an italic, and 1,446 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Spectral SC is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for editorial typography.

## Facts

- Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif)
- Designed by: Production Type
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 14 (ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 1446
- Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-02
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Spectral+SC
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/spectral-sc
- Tagged for: Headlines, Body text, Editorial, Elegant

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2017 The Spectral Project Authors (https://github.com/productiontype/Spectral)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Spectral SC free for commercial use?

Spectral SC can be used in commercial and personal work under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits modification and redistribution; the font cannot be sold by itself, and derivatives stay under the same license.

### Who designed Spectral SC?

Spectral SC comes from Production Type, and the font's name table credits Jean-Baptiste Levee as designer. The family was commissioned by Google Fonts.

### How many weights does Spectral SC have?

Spectral SC has seven weights, from ExtraLight 200 to ExtraBold 800, each with an italic.

### What does SC mean in Spectral SC?

SC stands for small caps: Spectral SC is the small-capitals companion to the Spectral family.

### Which languages does Spectral SC support?

Spectral SC includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/spectral-sc (trendhub)