Vidaloka

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Vidaloka Regular

About Vidaloka

Vidaloka is a serif display face in the Didone style, where thick vertical stems meet hairline serifs and joins. The specimen shows what sets it apart inside that style: drop-shaped terminals that curl inward on a, c, f, r and y, sloped ends on other strokes, a Q whose tail swings out in a baroque flourish, and a dark overall colour for a weight labelled Regular. Alexei Vanyashin and Olga Karpushina designed it at Cyreal. Because of the strong contrast, the official notes recommend sizes of 16 pixels and above and uses such as headlines and short text blocks. The family is one Regular 400 file with 228 glyphs in the basic Latin set; it has no italic and is not a variable font. Vidaloka was added to Google Fonts in 2011 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Vidaloka works

Fashion and lifestyle headlines

Hairline serifs against heavy stems give a title the look of a glossy magazine cover.

Blog post titles

A dark Regular needs no bold to stand above body text set in a plain sans serif.

Wine labels and menus

Curled terminals and the flourished Q add ornament to product and dish names.

Quotes on posters

A short sentence at large size shows the contrast and the drop terminals clearly.

Wordmarks with a Q, R or K

The swinging tails on those capitals give a brand name a built-in flourish.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Vidaloka

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

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

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

Things to know

16 pixels and up

The official notes recommend 16px or larger: at smaller sizes the hairlines become too thin.

One style

There is no italic or bold companion.

Basic Latin set

The font has 228 glyphs, a small character set compared with most text families.

FAQs

Collections with Vidaloka

• High-contrast Didone fonts for fashion and editorial headlines

  Modern-face serifs with hairline serifs and vertical stress: the look of fashion mastheads, beauty packaging and magazine covers.

Similar fonts

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