Solway

Name: Solway
Author: Joe Prince

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

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Serifby Joe Prince88% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Ways to Use Solway

Best Font Pairings for Solway

TypeSmith curates 8 expert font pairings for Solway, including combinations with Suse Mono, Sans Mateo and Arar.

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

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Solway 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

Solway Specimen Gallery

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Solway Editorial Specimen

Solway in Editorial Context

Solway is a serif typeface by Joe Prince suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Joe Prince

Typeface Designer • Serif

Solway 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 Solway supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

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

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Solway Typography

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Solway Specimen

Solway

Solway is a serif typeface by Joe Prince built for display contexts.

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Solway

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Solway— serif typeface

SolwayBy Joe Prince

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Solway Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Solway for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Solway 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.

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

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Solway delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Solway italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Solway bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Solway typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Solway typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Solway'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Solway in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Solway

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Solway: A Closer Look

Joe Prince

Serif

Open Source

Solway delivers human touch and natural flow, making it well-suited for print publications. Its stroke contrast and decorative terminals contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for print publications and formal documents, Solway adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Solway font supports a variety of languages, primarily those using the Latin alphabet, including....

Solway was created by Joe Prince. The typeface's Bracketed or hairline serifs and Modulated stroke contrast reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary serif design.

As a Transitional serif in the Vox-ATypI Classicals family, Solway classical serif tradition. Its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it a strong fit for print-first layouts with sustained reading.

Solway is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 8 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Solway

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

Classification

Transitional serif classification. Solway exhibits Bracketed or hairline serifs, Modulated stroke contrast, Open counters with generous apertures. Designed by Joe Prince. A serif typeface available through TypeSmith.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 88). Solway performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print.

Design Heritage

Designed by Joe Prince. Solway classical serif tradition, delivered as a single focused weight. The designer's portfolio includes handlee and varela.

Overview

About Solway

Solway is classified as a Transitional serif in the Vox-ATypI Classicals family, designed during the Contemporary serif design era. Built with Bracketed or hairline serifs and Modulated stroke contrast, Solway serves as a standard typeface for print-first layouts with sustained reading. TypeSmith features Solway in a single weight variant and 8 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

8 curated pairings for Solway

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Alternatives to Solway

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Solway based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Solway Accessibility Profile

Solway 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.

Legibility Analysis: Solway

Solway 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.

Solway'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.

Solway for Long-Form Content

Solway 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.

Solway Accessibility Recommendations

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

Solway 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. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Solway. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Solway in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Solway Font Files

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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Internationalization

Language 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

The Solway font supports a variety of languages, primarily those using the Latin alphabet, including Western European, Central European, and Southeastern European languages. This coverage allows for a wide range of linguistic expressions, accommodating languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, and many others.

Legal

Solway License Information

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.

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

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

Solway

Best Ways to Use Solway

Best Font Pairings for Solway

Test Solway Font Pairings Live

In Context

Solway Typography

Solway

Character Set

Type Scale

Solway for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Solway Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Solway

Solway's Readability

Solway for Long-Form Content

Solway Accessibility Recommendations

Solway Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Solway

Best Ways to Use Solway

Best Font Pairings for Solway

Test Solway Font Pairings Live

In Context

Solway Typography

Solway

Character Set

Type Scale

Solway for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Solway Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Solway

Solway's Readability

Solway for Long-Form Content

Solway Accessibility Recommendations

Solway Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference