Zalando Sans SemiExpanded

Try Zalando Sans SemiExpanded

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Zalando Sans SemiExpanded ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Zalando Sans SemiExpanded Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Zalando Sans SemiExpanded Regular Italic
• Medium 500Zalando Sans SemiExpanded Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Zalando Sans SemiExpanded SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Zalando Sans SemiExpanded Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Zalando Sans SemiExpanded ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Zalando Sans SemiExpanded Black Black Italic

Zalando Sans SemiExpanded 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 Zalando Sans SemiExpanded

Zalando Sans SemiExpanded is a sans serif whose letters are set wider than usual, as the name states. In the specimen the O is close to a full circle, C, G and S spread out horizontally, and strokes end in flat horizontal or vertical cuts. The lowercase is tall, with a two-storey a and a single-storey g, and stroke contrast is slight. Eight weights run from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900, each with an italic, which gives 16 styles; they are delivered as two variable fonts on a 200 to 900 weight axis. The fonts contain 603 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The catalogue credits Jakob Ekelund, KH Type and Zalando, and the name table adds Kurppa Hosk, the studio behind KH Type. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with Zalando as a reserved font name.

Where Zalando Sans SemiExpanded works

Brand and campaign headlines

Wide capitals and round O shapes fill a banner at Bold 700 or Black 900 with few words.

Product and category pages

ExtraLight through Medium set prices, names and descriptions in one family, with italics for notes.

Buttons and navigation

Extra width keeps short labels legible at small sizes, at the cost of fewer characters per line.

Wordmarks and short titles

Flat stroke endings and the near-circular O give a short name an even, horizontal shape.

Multilingual storefronts

Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets keep Central European and Vietnamese pages in the same typeface.

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 Zalando Sans SemiExpanded

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 Zalando Sans SemiExpanded 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: "Zalando Sans SemiExpanded";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ZalandoSansSemiExpanded-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Zalando Sans SemiExpanded";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ZalandoSansSemiExpanded-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Zalando Sans SemiExpanded 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=Zalando+Sans+SemiExpanded:ital,wght@0,200..900;1,200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

It takes more room

A semi-expanded width means lines hold fewer characters than a normal-width sans at the same size; check long words in narrow columns.

Two variable files

Upright and italic each come as one variable file covering weights 200 to 900. There is no Thin 100.

The name is reserved

The license reserves the name Zalando, so modified versions must be renamed.

FAQs

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