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Hepta Slab

Designed By

Mike LaGattuta

9 Styles Serif

The pleasure
of a well-set
page.

Hepta Slab · Regular

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

9 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

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

A Page In Hepta Slab

Hepta Slab · 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.

9 Styles,
One Family

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

Thin100

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Extra Light200

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Light300

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Regular400

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Medium500

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Semi Bold600

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Bold700

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Extra Bold800

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Black900

Auction of household goods, Tuesday

Hepta Slab goes back to the antique genre types of the Bruce and Co. foundry, mostly one called Antique 307, which Mike LaGattuta worked from specimens. This one is wide: set a sentence in Hepta Slab Regular and it runs about 25% longer than in Georgia. The extra width is part of the look. It also means fewer words to a line, so give text columns some room.

LaGattuta built it through spring 2018 and paid attention to the figures. The old style numerals are half-ranging, sitting between lining height and full old style, a compromise that keeps dates and prices from bouncing in a line of text. The 1, 2 and 7 have stylistic alternates, and there are discretionary ligatures for Th, ch, ct and st if you want a period flavor.

Weights

9 of them, Thin to Black. The ends are display weights, Thin for very large type and Black for posters, and the middle of the range is meant for text. A Regular or Medium paragraph under a Black headline is the obvious combination, and it works.

Small caps, tabular figures, fractions and a slashed zero round out the feature list, with Vietnamese in the character set.

Hepta Slab type specimen with letters and figures
Hepta Slab · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

709 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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Hepta Slab

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

Download ZIP · 806 KB ↓
Version
1.102
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/hepta-slab-2/hepta-slab-2.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Hepta Slab', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

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

Hepta Slab 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.