Wittgenstein

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Wittgenstein Regular Italic
• Medium 500Wittgenstein Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Wittgenstein SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Wittgenstein Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Wittgenstein ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Wittgenstein Black Black Italic

Wittgenstein is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein is a serif typeface family for reading text and for headings. The specimen shows upright stress, moderate contrast between thick and thin strokes, bracketed serifs and rounded teardrop terminals on a, f and r. The capital W is the letter to recognise it by: its two inner diagonals cross each other instead of meeting in a point. Numerals are lining figures at capital height. The family has no light cuts; the variable weight axis begins at 400 and runs to 900, which gives six named weights, each with an italic, 12 styles altogether. The fonts contain 568 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Jörg Drees is named as designer and manufacturer in the font, and the files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Wittgenstein works

Long articles and essays

Regular with its italic handles running text, titles of works and quotations.

Newspaper-style headlines

ExtraBold and Black keep the bracketed serifs while adding the weight a front-page headline needs.

Academic and philosophical texts

Six upright weights and six italics separate headings, body, citations and footnotes within one family.

Book covers

The crossed W and the heavy end of the weight range give an author's name or a title a distinct shape.

European-language publications

Latin Extended coverage includes the letters for German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Wittgenstein

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 Wittgenstein 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: "Wittgenstein";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Wittgenstein-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Wittgenstein";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Wittgenstein-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Wittgenstein 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=Wittgenstein:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Nothing lighter than Regular

The weight axis runs from 400 to 900. There is no Light or Thin.

Separate italic file

Upright and italic styles come as two variable fonts, each spanning 400 to 900.

Latin only

Wittgenstein covers Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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