Staatliches

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Staatliches Regular

About Staatliches

Staatliches is a display sans serif made of capital letters only: in the specimen the lowercase row shows the same capitals as the row above it. The letters are narrow and heavy, with strokes of even thickness, flat stroke ends and tight curves on C, G, O and S. Brian LaRossa and Erica Carras drew the alphabet as a response to Herbert Bayer's title lettering for the catalogue of the first Bauhaus exhibition, published in 1923; the font's name table lists Type Brut Foundry as manufacturer. The one Regular file holds 418 glyphs: capitals, figures, punctuation and symbols, alternate letter widths, discretionary ligatures and accented Latin letters. Staatliches is not a variable font and has no italic. It was added to Google Fonts in 2018 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Staatliches works

Exhibition and event posters

Narrow, heavy capitals fit a long title on one line, and the Bauhaus-catalogue origin suits art, design and architecture subjects.

Wordmarks and labels

Alternate letter widths and discretionary ligatures give a short name several possible shapes without redrawing letters.

Section titles on websites

A single 400 file keeps the page light while the dense capitals mark the top of a section.

Packaging and stickers

Even stroke thickness and closed, compact shapes hold up when a line is printed small or reversed out of a colour.

Titles in European languages

Accented capitals are included for languages such as German, Polish, Czech and Turkish, so translated headings keep the same look.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Staatliches

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 Staatliches 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: "Staatliches";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Staatliches-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Staatliches", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Staatliches 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=Staatliches&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals only

Typing lowercase letters produces capitals. Staatliches has no separate lowercase alphabet.

One weight, no italic

The family is a single Regular 400 file. There is no bold, light or italic cut.

Alternates need OpenType support

The alternate widths and discretionary ligatures are optional features that are switched on in software with OpenType controls.

FAQs

Collections with Staatliches

• Bold fonts for posters and big headlines

  Heavy and condensed open-license display fonts that hold a sheet from across the room: gothics, slabs, fat faces and stencils.

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