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Sombra ✨
A geometric yet organic grotesque with flourishing spirit.
Between buildings and botany; between precast concrete and palm trees; between monuments and monstera
Growing from the inside out
El movimiento urbanístico de la »ciudad jardín« fue fundado por sir Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928). Sus conceptos sociológicos y urbanísticos se contienen en el libro de 1898 titulado Mañana: Un camino tranquilo hacia una reforma real (Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform), cuya versión corregida y completa apareció en 1902 con el nombre de Ciudades Jardín del mañana. Proponía sustituir las ciudades industriales por otras más pequeñas rodeadas de tierras agrícolas, mezclando la ciudad con el campo.

Sombra is an organic grotesque typeface with flourishing spirit. It combines geometric structure with leafy, sharply swelling strokes and exaggerated incisions. This tension between organic momentum and the geometric construction means Sombra flowers in branding, editorial and packaging projects connected to nature, urban life and culture.

Across seven weights, Sombra sprouts from a Condensed Light into an Extended Black before revealing its most eccentric colour in the Ultra Black poster style. It’s a versatile choice for demanding typographic tasks: a Condensed Thin for short synopses on the back of packaging, a Regular balanced for all kinds of text and a wide Black that boosts headlines.

How Sombra combines width and weight can bring an exciting tension to your design. And when you want an even more free-spirited attitude? There’s the Ultra Black Poster style to top it all off. With overgrown terminals, hairline punctuation and symbols, it takes Sombra’s concept further.

With more than 700 glyphs in each style, Sombra supports over 200 Latin languages and comes packed with arrows, starry icons, circled numbers, compact figure settings, as well as standard and fancy ligatures. Plus, there are a bunch of stylistic sets including alternate glyphs to tweak your texts and wordmarks, and elevated decimal figures for compact price and time settings.

Somewhere between buildings and botany, Sombra finds balance in contrasts.

Designed by
Paul Eslage
in 2020
specs
7 styles each with more than 700 glyphs
formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SansRegularCondensedExtendedHeadlinesBody TextIdentityPublishingLatinCleanExpressiveOrganicElegantVariable FontAlternatesLigaturesIcons
Related Typefaces
Pensum Sans, Norbert, Gustine Vaganza

Styles

  • Thin
  • Light
  • Regular
  • Medium
  • Bold
  • Black
  • Poster
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominators, Discretionary Ligatures, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set 01: Clean and Handwritten, Stylistic Set 02: Single-story a, Stylistic Set 03: Single-story g, Stylistic Set 04: Alternate r, Stylistic Set 05: Alternate y, Stylistic Set 06: Alternate Ampersand, Stylistic Set 07: Underlined Decimal Figures, Stylistic Set 08: Compact Decimal Figures, Stylistic Set 09: Compact Currency, Stylistic Set 10: Black Circled Figures, Stylistic Set 11: Circled Figures, Stylistic Set 12: Easy Accessible Arrows, Stylistic Set 13: Short j, Stylistic Set 14: Gender Star Alternates, Stylistic Set 15: Tabular Width Set, Stylistic Set 20: Smart Typography, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

Font Donation for the Petition Better Birth Control
Sombra in Use
Letters Like Sculptures in Spechte am Meisenknödel
Sombra in Use
Spreadgroup’s Journey
Sombra in Use
Poster Series for Salzburger Jahre
Sombra in Use