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Gabriela

Gabriela brings classic elegance to your typography with refined serifs that guide the eye through extended reading.

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Serifby Antonio Mejía89% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Gabriela

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Best Font Pairings for Gabriela

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Gabriela, including combinations with Lato, Anticyclone and Montserrat.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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Test Gabriela Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Gabriela with any font combination in real-time, optimized for serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Gabriela Specimen Gallery

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Gabriela Editorial Specimen

Gabriela in Editorial Context

Gabriela is a serif typeface by Antonio Mejía suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Antonio Mejía

Typeface Designer • Serif

Gabriela demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Gabriela supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Antonio Mejía, Gabriela balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Gabriela Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Gabriela Specimen

Gabriela

Gabriela is a serif typeface by Antonio Mejía built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSerif Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

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Tagline Pairings

Gabriela— serif typeface
GabrielaBy Antonio Mejía
GabrielaTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Gabriela Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Gabriela Used As Heading Examples

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Gabriela primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Gabriela section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Gabriela subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Gabriela content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Gabriela minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Gabriela smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Reading Text in Gabriela

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Gabriela, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Gabriela demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Gabriela for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Gabriela small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxGabriela delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxGabriela italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxGabriela bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxGabriela typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxGabriela typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Gabriela'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Gabriela

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Gabriela:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Gabriela:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Gabriela';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gabriela');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Styling with Gabriela

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

1.my-text {
2 font-family: 'Gabriela', sans-serif;
3 font-weight: 400;
4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

1$font-primary: 'Gabriela', sans-serif;
2
3.my-text {
4 font-family: $font-primary;
5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

1// tailwind.config.js
2module.exports = {
3 theme: {
4 extend: {
5 fontFamily: {
6 'gabriela': ['Gabriela', 'sans-serif'],
7 },
8 },
9 },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-gabriela">Your text here</p>

About

Understanding Gabriela

Antonio Mejía
Serif
Open Source

Gabriela delivers mathematical proportions and calculated curves, making it well-suited for editorial design. Its classical proportions and stroke contrast contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for formal documents and editorial design, Gabriela adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes This font supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian,....

Gabriela was created by Antonio Mejía. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Gabriela features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for academic papers and legal documents.

Gabriela is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated.

Gabriela

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Gabriela

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Gabriela's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Gabriela within the Classicals (Humanist, Garalde, Transitional) and Moderns (Didone) tradition, characterized by Bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and Modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. Serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Key technical strength: extensive weight and optical-size ranges in superfamilies.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 89). Gabriela delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Antonio Mejía. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Gabriela

Gabriela is classified as a Classicals typeface, rooted in the tradition where serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Its distinctive bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it well-suited for academic papers and legal documents. TypeSmith features Gabriela in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Gabriela
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

89
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Gabriela

Gabriela scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. High-contrast Didones can cause halation for readers with astigmatism. Prefer Garalde or Transitional cuts at text sizes for inclusive readability.

Reading Gabriela: Legibility Factors

Gabriela draws legibility from its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Gabriela's Readability

Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print. On screen, hinting quality determines legibility below 14 px. Set body text at 16 px or larger on screen, with line heights between 1.4 and 1.6 for sustained reading comfort.

Visual Comfort with Gabriela

Gabriela provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Gabriela Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Gabriela. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Gabriela at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Gabriela Usage Guidelines

Pair with geometric or grotesque sans-serifs for contrast. Avoid pairing two serifs from the same Vox sub-class to prevent visual redundancy. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Gabriela. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Gabriela in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Download Weights & Variants

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
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Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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100
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800
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900

Internationalization

Gabriela Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage
Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Dutch

Nordic

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic

Central European

  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic languages.

Legal

Gabriela Licensing

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
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What you can do

  • Personal projects
  • Commercial projects
  • Web embedding
  • App embedding
  • Modification
  • Redistribution

Restrictions

  • Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Gabriela is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Gabriela ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.