Ultra

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ultra Regular

About Ultra

Ultra is a slab serif display typeface drawn at an extremely heavy weight. The official description links it to wood type styles and positions it for titling. In the specimen the strokes are so thick that the counters of a, e and o shrink to small openings. Block-like serifs join the stems through curved brackets, round ball terminals finish a, c, f, j and r, and the letters are wide. The figures match the letters in weight. Ultra is a single static Regular file with 374 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets, including the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian. There is no lighter weight, italic or variable version. The record credits Astigmatic, and the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, doing business as Astigmatic. Ultra is licensed under Apache 2.0, not the Open Font License.

Where Ultra works

Poster and flyer headlines

The very thick strokes and wide letters let two or three words carry a whole poster.

Wood-type flavoured titles

Bracketed slabs and ball terminals recall wood type on show bills, menus and labels.

Large numerals

The figures are as heavy as the letters, which suits prices, dates and scores set big.

Section titles above plain text

A short heading in Ultra contrasts strongly with a light text family underneath.

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
• 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 Ultra

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

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

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

Things to know

One weight

Ultra has Regular 400 only, and that single style is already extremely heavy. There is no italic.

Apache 2.0 license

Ultra is not under the Open Font License. Copies carry the Apache license text and the copyright and attribution notices.

Small counters

In the specimen the enclosed spaces of a and e are very small, so the letters fill in when set small.

FAQs

Collections with Ultra

• Bold vintage fonts for poster design

  Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

Similar fonts

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