Truculenta

Try Truculenta

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Truculenta Thin
• ExtraLight 200Truculenta ExtraLight
• Light 300Truculenta Light
• Regular 400Truculenta Regular
• Medium 500Truculenta Medium
• SemiBold 600Truculenta SemiBold
• Bold 700Truculenta Bold
• ExtraBold 800Truculenta ExtraBold
• Black 900Truculenta Black

Truculenta 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 Truculenta

Truculenta is a sans serif typeface that keeps the unevenness of hand-drawn lettering from the middle of the twentieth century. In the specimen the letters are tall and narrow with flat sides, stems lean by a hair, and widths differ slightly from one character to the next, which gives a line a lively, cut-paper look. The family is built as one variable font. Weight runs from 100 to 900 with nine named instances from Thin to Black; width runs from 75 to 125; optical size runs from 12 to 72, so the drawing can be tuned for small text or for titles. There is no italic. The font holds 1,387 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. The name table credits Ivan Castro and Eva Sanz together with the Omnibus-Type team, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Truculenta works

Packaging

The width axis from 75 to 125 fits a product name to a narrow label or stretches it across a wide box.

Book covers and illustrated editions

Irregular, lettering-like shapes sit naturally beside drawn artwork.

Film and video titles

Black 900 at a large optical size gives a title card the feel of mid-century hand lettering.

Brand identities

Nine weights and a width range let one family supply logo, headlines and small print.

Small text with character

Lowering the optical size toward 12 adapts the same design for captions and credits.

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

Fonts that pair with Truculenta

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 Truculenta 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: "Truculenta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Truculenta-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Truculenta 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=Truculenta:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Three axes in one file

Weight (100 to 900), width (75 to 125) and optical size (12 to 72) are all contained in a single variable font.

No italic

The family has upright styles only.

Latin with Vietnamese

Subsets are latin, latin-ext and vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek are not present.

FAQs

Collections with Truculenta

• Fonts for packaging and product labels

  Brush scripts, soft serifs and sturdy display faces for jars, boxes, bottles and tags, where a name has to work on a small curved surface.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts