Vollkorn SC

Try Vollkorn SC

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Vollkorn SC Regular
• SemiBold 600Vollkorn SC SemiBold
• Bold 700Vollkorn SC Bold
• Black 900Vollkorn SC Black

About Vollkorn SC

Vollkorn SC is a serif family in which lowercase letters are replaced by small capitals. It belongs to Vollkorn, which Friedrich Althausen describes as his first type design and as a modest text face for everyday work; the name is German for wholemeal. The specimen shows what he means by dark serifs: the feet are thick and firmly bracketed, the capital J dips under the baseline, the Q has a short curled tail, and the figures are old-style. The small capitals are generously spaced and as heavy as the capitals beside them. The family has four static weights, Regular 400, SemiBold 600, Bold 700 and Black 900, without italics, and it is not a variable font. Its 1,034 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese and Cyrillic. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Vollkorn SC works

Chapter titles and running heads

Spaced small capitals in Regular or SemiBold mark the structure of a book without shouting.

Small-caps passages in Vollkorn text

Opening words of a chapter, acronyms and bylines can switch to Vollkorn SC while the body stays in Vollkorn.

Heavy editorial headlines

Black 900 turns the thick serifs into a dense, dark title for a feature or a cover line.

Certificates and title pages

Capitals with small capitals and old-style figures give names and dates a formal, bookish setting.

Cyrillic titling

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian small capitals are included among the 1,034 glyphs.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 Vollkorn SC

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 Vollkorn SC 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: "Vollkorn SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/VollkornSC-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Vollkorn SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/VollkornSC-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Vollkorn SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/VollkornSC-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Vollkorn SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/VollkornSC-SemiBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Vollkorn SC", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Vollkorn SC 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=Vollkorn+SC:wght@400;600;700;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No lowercase

Lowercase input appears as small capitals, so Vollkorn SC cannot set ordinary mixed-case text; the main Vollkorn family does that.

Four weights, no italic

The cuts are 400, 600, 700 and 900. There is no Medium or ExtraBold and no italic in this family.

Old-style figures

The numerals in the specimen sit at small-cap height with ascenders and descenders.

FAQs

Collections with Vollkorn SC

• Fonts with small capitals

  Families issued as small-caps cuts, where the lowercase keys give capitals at x-height: for acronyms, headings, credits and refined body text.

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