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Lexend Zetta

Designed By

Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez, Superunion

9 Styles Sans Serif

Letters for
every day.

Lexend Zetta · Regular

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

Download Lexend Zetta ↓

TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

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A Clear Hierarchy

Lexend Zetta · 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.

Platform 04Ticket Office →

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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Set a sentence in Lexend Zetta next to the same sentence in Arial and the Zetta version comes out about 83% longer. That is the point of it. Lexend is a set of 7 families that share 1 design and differ in how much room they leave around each letter, and Zetta sits at the far loose end.

The idea belongs to Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup. As an educational therapist in Silicon Valley she spaced out some of the letters on the worksheets of students with dyslexia and other reading difficulties, and their fluency and comprehension improved. From there she argues that many reading problems start in the eye, with fonts packed more densely than a struggling reader can sort out. Her spacing rules go by the name Shaver-Troup Formulations, and the project likens fitting a reader with the right Lexend to prescribing glasses.

Thomas Jockin drew the original letters with her; Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and the agency Superunion appear in Google’s credits as well. The full Thin to Black range arrived in June 2021, when Font Bureau made every family variable.

Would we set a paragraph in it? Only for a reader who has been shown to need it. For everyone else Zetta works best on a few words: a logo, a section title, a label with lots of air around it. The files also have a slashed zero, fractions and true superscripts.

Lexend Zetta type specimen with letters and figures
Lexend Zetta · Type Specimen

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 Zetta

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

Download ZIP · 358 KB ↓
Version
1.007
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/lexend-zetta-3/lexend-zetta-3.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Lexend Zetta', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.

Lexend Zetta Heading · Lexend Zetta 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.