Poly
Designed By
Nicolás Silva
2 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Poly · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
2 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Poly ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Ñandutí lace from Itauguá
A Page In Poly
Poly · 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.
2 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Ñandutí lace from Itauguá
Italic400
Ñandutí lace from Itauguá
Some languages glue meaning onto a word piece by piece, and the words grow very long. Nicolás Silva drew Poly for those agglutinative languages, and its Latin support reaches in particular to Native South American language families. His brief was a serif that would take tight tracking without falling apart and squeeze more letters onto each line.
The tools for that are short ascenders and a careful balance between the height of the lowercase and the width of each glyph, which buys economy and legibility at small sizes compared with standard web serifs. Contrast is medium.
There is a roman and an italic, and the italic sets noticeably narrower, which suits a long quoted term. Small caps, old style and tabular figures and a slashed zero are in there as well, more than you’d expect from a 2-style family.
Characters & Figures
366 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 363 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Poly
2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 62 KB ↓- Version
- 1.001
- 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/poly/poly.css">
body {
font-family: 'Poly', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Poly 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.