Unna

Try Unna

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Unna Regular Italic
• Bold 700Unna Bold Bold Italic

About Unna

Unna is a serif family in the neoclassical manner: its stress is vertical, its stems are firm and its serifs are thin, so a line of text reads as a row of strong upright strokes. The specimen shows ball terminals on a, c, f and r, a narrow, upright build and hairlines that stay fine without breaking, which gives the face a softer look than strict high-contrast designs. Jorge de Buen designed it for Omnibus-Type and chose his mother's surname as its name; the name table records him as Jorge de Buen Unna. The family has four styles, Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, as static files, and it is not a variable font. Each font contains 385 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Unna was added to Google Fonts in 2011 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Unna works

Magazine and blog headlines

Vertical stress and fine serifs show their contrast at title sizes, in Regular or Bold.

Pull quotes and standfirsts

The italic gives a quotation a second voice within the same family.

Book covers and title pages

Strong stems with thin serifs give an author's name a classical, bookish tone.

Short articles

Four styles cover text, emphasis and subheads for a page that wants a traditional serif throughout.

Spanish-language publishing

Omnibus-Type's Latin Extended set includes the accents and punctuation needed for Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.

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

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 Unna

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

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

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

Things to know

Two weights

Unna has Regular and Bold with italics. There are no intermediate or light weights.

Fine hairlines

Serifs and joins are thin, so very small sizes or low-resolution screens thin them further.

Static files

The package has four TTF files and no variable font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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