- Heading
- Piazzolla
- Body text
- Libertinus Sans
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: elegant
- The body font is made for reading
Piazzolla
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Piazzolla is a free font by Juan Pablo del Peral, HT Fonts, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 503 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 48% of the em and the capital height is 64%.
Piazzolla is a serif font designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for HT Fonts, intended for making efficient use of space in press media and other publications. It contains 2328 glyphs across 18 styles with weights from 100 to 900, and it is a variable font. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, with all the extra Cyrillic letters needed for Kazakh included. The font is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license.
Author
Juan Pablo del Peral, HT Fonts
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
2328
Character and uses
- Mood
- serious
- elegant
- Design
- slab serif
- high contrast
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Piazzolla has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 503 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
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- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Sicilian
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
…and 392 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1330
- x-height
- 48% of the em
- Capital height
- 64% of the em
- Version
- 2.005
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Small capitals
smcp - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (4)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Piazzolla
- Designer’s page
- huertatipografica.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Piazzolla font free to use?
Yes. Piazzolla is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Piazzolla support Cyrillic?
Yes, Piazzolla includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Piazzolla support?
Piazzolla covers 503 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Piazzolla a variable font?
Yes. Piazzolla is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Piazzolla?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Piazzolla?
Piazzolla was created by Juan Pablo del Peral, HT Fonts.
What is Piazzolla good for?
Judging by its design, Piazzolla suits: magazines and editorial, body text, headings.
Pairs well with Piazzolla
More pairs and your own text- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: serious
- The body font is made for reading
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