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  5. The Weekend

The Weekend

The Weekend delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Mitya Vilson80% Accessible
Characters512
Glyphs614
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use The Weekend

01

Best Font Pairings for The Weekend

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for The Weekend, including combinations with Melete, Uniblock and Facon.

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

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02

Test The Weekend Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview The Weekend with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans 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

The Weekend Specimen Gallery

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The Weekend Editorial Specimen

The Weekend in Editorial Context

The Weekend is a sans serif typeface by Mitya Vilson suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Mitya Vilson

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

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

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

Designed by Mitya Vilson, The Weekend balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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The Weekend Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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The Weekend Specimen

The Weekend

The Weekend is a sans serif typeface by Mitya Vilson built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

The Weekend
The Weekend
THE WEEKEND
THE WEEKENDTYPE
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The Weekend— sans serif typeface
The WeekendBy Mitya Vilson
The WeekendTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

The Weekend Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

The Weekend Typography Scale

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

Body Text with The Weekend

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

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

When setting The Weekend 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating The Weekend

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

The Weekend CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of The Weekend

Mitya Vilson
Sans Serif
Open Source

The Weekend font is a bold condensed sans-serif featuring Latin and Cyrillic support for impactful multilingual display typography. This commanding typeface delivers strong presence through heavy weight and narrow proportions, suitable for entertainment, lifestyle brands, and publications serving international audiences. The Weekend works effectively for event promotions, magazine headlines, and bold brand statements. Particularly suited for leisure and entertainment. Pairs with text faces for contrast.

The Weekend comes from the work of Mitya Vilson. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, The Weekend features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for corporate identity systems requiring neutrality.

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

The Weekend

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of The Weekend

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

1

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies The Weekend within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). The Weekend delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About The Weekend

The Weekend embodies the Lineal typeface, grounded in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for corporate identity systems requiring neutrality. TypeSmith indexes The Weekend in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for The Weekend
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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to The Weekend 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

80
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Using The Weekend Accessibly

The Weekend achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

The Weekend Legibility Characteristics

The Weekend draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

The Weekend's Readability

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

The Weekend's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

The Weekend Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with The Weekend: Best Practices

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for The Weekend. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve The Weekend in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

International Character 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 encodes 239 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for The Weekend

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.

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