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Sol

Sol commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Linas Spurga65% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Sol

01

Best Font Pairings for Sol

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Sol, including combinations with Sedan, Opendyslexic and Finlandica.

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

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02

Test Sol Font Pairings Live

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

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

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In Context

Sol Specimen Gallery

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Sol
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Sol Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Sol Specimen

Sol

Sol is a display typeface by Linas Spurga built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Sol
Sol
SOL
SOLTYPE
S

Tagline Pairings

Sol— display typeface
SolBy Linas Spurga
SolTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Sol Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Sol Typography Scale

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

Sol for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Sol 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Sol in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Sol';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Sol:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Sol CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

1$font-primary: 'Sol', 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 'sol': ['Sol', 'sans-serif'],
7 },
8 },
9 },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-sol">Your text here</p>

About

Inside Sol

Linas Spurga
Display
Open Source

Sol Typeface font is a bold condensed display typeface with contemporary proportions, creative details, and elegant character designed for sophisticated, efficient applications. The compressed structure and refined styling create impactful, upscale typography. This elegant creative bold condensed contemporary display typeface works effectively in sophisticated brand identities, elegant condensed headlines, refined advertising, and applications requiring efficient elegance. The sun name suggests warmth and light. Sol Typeface serves designers creating sophisticated efficient experiences. Pair with refined supporting fonts.

Sol comes from the work of Linas Spurga. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Sol features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Sol is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Sol

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Sol

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Sol within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 65). Sol handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Linas Spurga. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Sol

Sol embodies the Graphic typeface, anchored in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith indexes Sol in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Sol
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Accessibility & Usability

65
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Sol

Sol falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Reading Sol: Legibility Factors

Sol draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Sol

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Sol's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Sol provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Sol Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Sol: Best Practices

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Sol. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Sol in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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100
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700
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800
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Internationalization

Sol Language Coverage

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 encodes 107 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Sol

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.

Sol 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 Sol ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.