Lexend Peta
Designed By
Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez, Superunion
9 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Lexend Peta · Regular
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9 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Lexend Peta ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Clear Hierarchy
Lexend Peta · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
9 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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Black900
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Lexend Peta takes up about 62% more width than Arial for the same words, and that spacing is the whole point of it.
Before Lexend, Bonnie Shaver-Troup spent her days as an educational therapist in Silicon Valley, helping students with dyslexia and other reading problems. When she opened up the spacing between certain letters on their assignments, they read better and understood more. Her view, put bluntly, is that many reading problems are visual, caused by type set too tight, and that changing the font can change the result. Lexend grew out of those Shaver-Troup Formulations, as she calls them, drawn with Thomas Jockin, and it was meant to work for readers the way prescription glasses work for the short-sighted.
The collection has 7 families, built on the idea that the fit of a font should suit the individual reader, and Peta is among the roomiest. Santiago Orozco and Héctor Gómez are credited too, as is Superunion. In June 2021 Font Bureau’s work turned every Lexend family into a variable font with a weight axis from Thin to Black. These files give you 9 of those weights.
Is it a body text face for everyone? Probably not; a page of Peta eats space fast. For a struggling reader, or a short heading where the letters should stand well apart, it earns its width.
Characters & Figures
685 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Lexend Peta
9 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 360 KB ↓- Version
- 1.007
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
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/lexend-peta-3/lexend-peta-3.css">
body {
font-family: 'Lexend Peta', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
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Lexend Peta Heading · Lexend Peta Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.