Syne

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Syne Regular
• Medium 500Syne Medium
• SemiBold 600Syne SemiBold
• Bold 700Syne Bold
• ExtraBold 800Syne ExtraBold

Syne is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Syne

Syne is a sans serif family whose width changes with its weight. The Regular is a geometric sans with round bowls, a single-storey a and figures of uneven height; from there each step towards ExtraBold makes the letters wider as well as heavier, until the heaviest cut is strongly extended, as the weight samples in the specimen show. Lucas Descroix drew the family in 2017 to a concept by Bonjour Monde, assisted by Arman Mohtadji, for Synesthésie, an art centre in Saint-Denis outside Paris. George Triantafyllakos added a Greek script in March 2022. Syne has five weights, 400 to 800, in one variable file with a weight axis and no italics. It holds 709 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Greek, and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Syne works

Identities for cultural venues

The family was made as a working tool for an art centre: Regular handles everyday text and the wide heavy cuts act as a signature.

Headlines that change width

Because Bold and ExtraBold are wider than Regular, moving along the weight axis changes how much of a line a title fills.

Posters and programme covers

The extended ExtraBold 800 fills a sheet with a few words while Regular sets the dates beneath it.

Animated titles on the web

The 400 to 800 weight axis in one file lets a heading stretch and thicken in a CSS transition.

Greek and Latin layouts

Greek letters by George Triantafyllakos follow the same widening logic, so bilingual titles behave alike.

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
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Syne

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 Syne 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: "Syne";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Syne-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Bolder means wider

Text set in a heavier weight takes more horizontal space than the same text in Regular, so line breaks change with weight.

No italics

Syne has upright styles only. Syne Mono and Syne Tactile are separate families.

Figures sit at different heights

In the specimen the numerals 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 drop below the baseline, as old-style figures do.

FAQs

Collections with Syne

• Wide and extended fonts for headings and logos

  Extended sans-serif and display families whose broad letters give short words presence: for mastheads, wordmarks and section titles.

• Fonts that support Greek

  Open-license families with Greek glyphs beside Latin, for Greek-language sites and for mathematics, science and classics.

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