Vina Sans

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Vina Sans Regular

About Vina Sans

Vina Sans is a display typeface built from tall, tightly packed, very heavy letters. In the specimen the lowercase row stands as high as the capitals and mostly repeats capital shapes; only a few letters, such as a, e, m and n, keep lowercase forms, and i and j carry a flat bar in place of a dot. Counters are narrow slits, while the parentheses and braces are drawn as thin lines beside the dark letters. The design borrows from lettering seen on street signs, flyers and posters around Vietnam and, by its makers' account, deliberately keeps the kind of font errors that turn up in roughly produced print. The font is credited to Nguyen Type, and its name table names Andree Nguyen as designer. One Regular style holds 560 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Vina Sans works

Event posters and flyers

Tall, dense letters fill a poster width with a few words, the use the street lettering behind the design was made for.

Vietnamese headlines

The glyph set includes the accented letters Vietnamese needs, drawn into the same compressed heavy style.

Shop signs and menu boards

Signage is the source of the design, and the narrow letters fit long names onto a board.

Thumbnails and short titles

Because both cases stand at capital height, a title forms a solid block of even height.

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 Vina Sans

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Vina Sans has Regular 400 only, although the letters are drawn very heavy. There is no italic.

Lowercase at capital height

Typing lowercase gives letters as tall as capitals, most of them capital shapes, so mixed case does not produce the usual word outline.

Irregular on purpose

The official description says the design incorporates font errors of the kind found in low-quality publications.

FAQs

Collections with Vina Sans

• Fonts drawn from street signs and painted lettering

  Typefaces based on hand-painted shop signs, truck art, railway boards and protest placards from cities around the world.

• Fonts that support Vietnamese

  Open-license families that include the stacked diacritics Vietnamese needs, among them several designed in or for Vietnam.

Similar fonts

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