Tinos

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Tinos Regular Italic
• Bold 700Tinos Bold Bold Italic

About Tinos

Tinos is a serif family for office documents and reading on screen. Steve Matteson designed it to be width-compatible with a widely installed office serif, so that text set in one can be swapped to the other without line breaks or page counts changing. The specimen shows a narrow, economical design with sharp bracketed serifs, clear stroke contrast and lining figures. The official notes describe improved on-screen readability and hinting. The family has four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, supplied as static files, and it is not a variable font. Each font holds 3,210 glyphs, with Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese character sets. The name table lists Monotype Imaging Inc. as manufacturer. The files in this package carry the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and a copyright line for The Tinos Project Authors.

Where Tinos works

Documents shared across systems

Matching character widths mean a report or contract opens with the same line breaks on a machine that lacks the original font.

Office templates

Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic are the four styles word processors expect, so toolbar buttons map to real fonts.

Dense printed text

Narrow letters fit more words per line, which helps in forms, legal text and multi-column layouts.

Multilingual paperwork

Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese in one family keep mixed-language documents visually uniform.

Web pages with a classic serif

Hinting tuned for screens keeps the thin serifs readable at text sizes on lower-resolution displays.

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
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, 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 Tinos

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 Tinos 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: "Tinos";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Tinos-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Tinos";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Tinos-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Tinos";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Tinos-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Tinos";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Tinos-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Tinos 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=Tinos:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights

Tinos stops at Regular and Bold with their italics. There are no light, medium or black cuts.

License changed over time

The official description still mentions an Apache 2.0 release from 2013; the font files and license text supplied now are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Static files

The package contains four separate TTF files and no variable font.

FAQs

Collections with Tinos

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

• Serif fonts for academic and scholarly writing

  Text families with very large character sets for theses, journals and critical editions: Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and historical characters.

• Fonts that cover several writing systems

  Families that set Latin together with three or more other scripts in one design, for multilingual sites, apps and documents.

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