Varta

Try Varta

Weights and styles

• Light 300Varta Light
• Regular 400Varta Regular
• Medium 500Varta Medium
• SemiBold 600Varta SemiBold
• Bold 700Varta Bold

Varta 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 Varta

Varta is a sans serif family designed to stay clear at small sizes on both low and high resolution screens. The specimen shows a slightly narrow humanist build: strokes thin a little where curves meet stems, the a is double-storey while the g is single-storey, and the lowercase is tall against the capitals. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and five named weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, all upright. Its 784 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Its makers name signage, editorial layouts, packaging and long reading on screen as intended uses. Joana Correia, Viktoriya Grabowska and Eben Sorkin are credited, Sorkin Type is the publisher, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Varta works

Wayfinding and sign systems

A narrow build and tall lowercase fit long place names on a sign, one of the uses its makers list.

Small text on low-resolution screens

The design brief was legibility down to small sizes on poor and good displays alike.

Editorial layouts

Five weights between Light and Bold separate headlines, standfirsts, captions and body copy inside one family.

Packaging copy

Ingredient lists and directions set in the lighter weights stay compact because the letters are slightly narrow.

Vietnamese-language products

Vietnamese is part of the 784-glyph character set, alongside Latin Extended.

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 Varta

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 Varta 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: "Varta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Varta-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Varta 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=Varta:wght@300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

All five styles are upright. The family offers weight, not slope, for emphasis.

Weight axis stops at 700

The variable axis runs from 300 to 700; there is no Thin and nothing heavier than Bold.

One variable file

The package holds the variable font only. Static files for the five weights are available from the official source.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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