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Trispace

A monospace-inspired sans serif whose characters each take one of three widths, with variable weight and width axes.

Sans Serif 8 styles · variable by Tyler Finck, ETC OFL

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Trispace is a sans serif by Tyler Finck of ETC in which every letter takes one of three widths. Trispace is a variable font with a weight axis from Thin 100 to ExtraBold 800 and a width axis from 75 to 125. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits technical branding, interfaces and headings.

Trispace font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Tyler Finck, ETC
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 8 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–800, Width 75–125
Glyphs
1,147
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.210
Used for
HeadlinesInterfacesBrandingTech

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Trispace

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Trispace; the download contains the complete files.

Trispace font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Trispace specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Trispace Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Trispace ExtraLight
  • Light 300Trispace Light
  • Regular 400Trispace Regular
  • Medium 500Trispace Medium
  • SemiBold 600Trispace SemiBold
  • Bold 700Trispace Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Trispace ExtraBold

Trispace 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 Trispace

Trispace is a sans serif family that looks like a typewriter face but is not strictly monospaced: its characters are sorted into three widths. The specimen shows the typewriter habits it keeps, such as a foot under the i and the r, a curved tail on the l and generous space between letters. Two variable axes shape it. Weight runs from 100 to 800 through eight named weights, Thin to ExtraBold, and width runs from 75 to 125 with 100 as the normal setting. There are no italics. The font contains 1,147 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Tyler Finck is the designer, the manufacturer named in the font is Etcetera Type Company, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Trispace works

Branding for developer tools
The typewriter feet and open spacing signal code, while the three-width system keeps a product name from looking like raw terminal output.
Interface labels with a technical tone
Regular and Medium work for tags, status lines and metadata next to a plainer text family.
Headings fitted to a column
The width axis, 75 to 125, narrows or widens a heading until it fills its line.
Posters and title cards
Thin 100 at large sizes turns the wide-set letters into a light grid; ExtraBold 800 does the opposite.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,147 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

Character sets found in the files: 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2020 The Trispace Project Authors (https://github.com/Etcetera-Type-Co/Trispace)

What the license allows

  • 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.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Trispace

Abhaya Libre Serif

Trispace is sans serif and Abhaya Libre is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arvo Slab Serif

Trispace is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Azeret Mono Monospace

Azeret Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Trispace as the text face.

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 Trispace 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Trispace";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Trispace-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Trispace with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Not a fixed-pitch font
Characters have three different widths, so columns of text do not line up character by character as they do in a true monospace.
Two axes in one file
The single variable file carries weight (100 to 800) and width (75 to 125). The weight axis defaults to 100.
No italics
All eight named styles are upright.
Static cuts are elsewhere
This package holds the variable font only; static files for fixed weights and widths are available from the official source.

FAQs

Is Trispace free for commercial use?

Yes. Trispace is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Trispace?

Trispace was designed by Tyler Finck of ETC, the Etcetera Type Company.

Is Trispace a monospaced font?

No. Trispace is inspired by monospaced type, but its letters occupy one of three widths, so it does not align like a fixed-pitch font.

How many weights does Trispace have?

Trispace has eight named weights, from Thin 100 to ExtraBold 800, and no italics.

Is Trispace a variable font?

Yes. Trispace is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 800 and a width axis from 75 to 125.

Which languages does Trispace support?

Trispace includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, French, Polish, Turkish, Romanian and Vietnamese.

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