# Vina Sans font

> A heavy condensed display face modelled on Vietnamese street signs, flyers and posters, flaws included.

Vina Sans is a heavy, condensed display typeface from Nguyen Type, inspired by the lettering of street signs, flyers and posters in Vietnam. Vina Sans has one style with 560 glyphs, includes the letters needed for Vietnamese, and draws its lowercase at capital height. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for headlines and posters.

## Facts

- Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display)
- Designed by: Nguyen Type
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 560
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-05
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Vina+Sans
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/vina-sans
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Condensed, Signage

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2023 The Vina Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/nguyentype/vinasans)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Vina Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Vina Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Vina Sans?

Vina Sans is credited to Nguyen Type. The font's name table names Andree Nguyen as designer and Nguyen Type Foundry as manufacturer.

### How many weights does Vina Sans have?

Vina Sans has one weight, labelled Regular 400, with no italic. It is not a variable font.

### Does Vina Sans have lowercase letters?

Vina Sans has a lowercase set, but it is drawn at capital height and mostly uses capital shapes; a, e, m and n are among the few distinct forms visible in the specimen.

### Which languages does Vina Sans support?

Vina Sans includes the letters needed for Vietnamese and for other Latin-script languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish and Polish.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/vina-sans (trendhub)