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Ancizar Serif

Designed By

Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), César Puertas, Viviana Monsalve, Julián Moncada

14 Styles Serif

The pleasure
of a well-set
page.

Ancizar Serif · Regular

Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.

14 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

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TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

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Notes from the Bogotá campus library

A Page In Ancizar Serif

Ancizar Serif · Regular

Headings, labels and running text.

Notes From The Reading Room

The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.

A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.

14 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Light300

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Light Italic300

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Regular400

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Italic400

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Medium500

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Medium Italic500

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Semi Bold600

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Semi Bold Italic600

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Bold700

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Bold Italic700

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Extra Bold800

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Extra Bold Italic800

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Black900

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Black Italic900

Notes from the Bogotá campus library

Bogotá is where this serif was drawn, by Professor César Puertas of the Faculty of Arts with Viviana Monsalve and Julián Moncada, after Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the country’s largest public university, asked in 2014 for a typeface to carry its institutional image. The fonts were used only inside the university for a decade. In 2024 it gave them away, its own words calling the release a contribution from UNAL to humanity, which is a larger ambition than most corporate fonts admit to.

The family has 2 halves. The Sans is meant for signs and headlines, and this Serif for the long stuff, essays and articles, in print that may be rough and on screens.

Ancizar Serif comes here in 7 weights from Light to Black, each with an italic, 14 files in all. The italics are a good deal tighter than the romans, close to 14% narrower across the same words, so they save room in a citation or a book title inside a sentence without changing the color of the line much. The typesetting kit is the kind a university press would ask for:

  • small caps, with a feature to turn capitals into them
  • old style and lining figures, both tabular and proportional
  • superscripts, subscripts, ordinals and fractions
  • monotonic Greek beside the Latin

The people thanked for refining it since 2014 make a long list, from Julián Prieto and José Castro to Jhon García and the university’s Digital Media Office. For a thesis or a journal, we would keep Regular and Italic for the text and let Semi Bold do the headings. The Black is heavy enough for a poster and too heavy for anything else in an academic document.

Ancizar Serif type specimen with letters and figures
Ancizar Serif · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

704 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

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Ancizar Serif

14 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 864 KB ↓
Version
8.100
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Install On Your Computer

Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.

Use On A Website

Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/ancizar-serif/ancizar-serif.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Ancizar Serif', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Ancizar Serif Heading · Inter Body

Notes From The Reading Room

The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.