- Heading
- Sofia Sans Condensed
- Body text
- IBM Plex Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
Sofia Sans Condensed
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Sofia Sans Condensed is a free font by Lettersoup, Botio Nikoltchev, Ani Petrova, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 379 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 49% of the em and the capital height is 66%.
Sofia Sans Condensed is a sans-serif font with 954 glyphs, supporting Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It comes in 18 styles with weights from 100 to 900 and is a variable font. Originally designed as a typeface for the capital city of Bulgaria, it belongs to a family available in four widths. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Author
Lettersoup, Botio Nikoltchev, Ani Petrova
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
954
Character and uses
- Mood
- technical
- business-like
- Design
- condensed
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Sofia Sans Condensed has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 379 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
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- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Macedonian
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
…and 272 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 — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not 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
- 606
- x-height
- 49% of the em
- Capital height
- 66% of the em
- Version
- 4.101
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Small capitals
smcp - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (2)
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/Sofia+Sans+Condensed
- Designer’s page
- lettersoup.de
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Sofia Sans Condensed font free to use?
Yes. Sofia Sans Condensed is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Sofia Sans Condensed support Cyrillic?
Yes, Sofia Sans Condensed includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Sofia Sans Condensed support?
Sofia Sans Condensed covers 379 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 Sofia Sans Condensed a variable font?
Yes. Sofia Sans Condensed 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 Sofia Sans Condensed?
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 Sofia Sans Condensed?
Sofia Sans Condensed was created by Lettersoup, Botio Nikoltchev, Ani Petrova.
What is Sofia Sans Condensed good for?
Judging by its design, Sofia Sans Condensed suits: video titles and subtitles, interfaces, headings, magazines and editorial.
Pairs well with Sofia Sans Condensed
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- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
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