Font Guide: Non English Typography For Your Flotheme

Given the trends and demands of the creative industry, we all know by now how important and crucial is choosing the right typography. Fonts are no longer just a mean of communication, there’s a whole art to it. The right font can set the correct tone of your messages, convey certain feelings and associations with your brand, support your creative work and set a hidden voice behind your business. It can also enhance your visitors’ user experience on your site, and keep them reading and diving into blog posts and stories.

We realize that each of your brands has its own character and visions, and may need a different type of font to properly portray that message. Luckily, for English speakers there are tons of resources available for Fonts and Font Combos. It gets more tricky when you speak multiple languages, choose a font only to find out that it doesn’t support your mother tongue.

We wanted to help you out, so we have put together a list of font pairings for a few different language groups that our clients speak.

French

Font Set #1
Uppereastside – http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/uppereastside
Questa Sans –http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/questa-sans
Georgia – https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/georgia/

Font Set #2
Croissant One – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Croissant+One
Libre Calson Text – http://www.1001fonts.com/libre-caslon-text-font.html
Georgia – https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/georgia/

Font Set #3
Croissant One – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Croissant+One
Lato – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato
Open Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
Cinzel – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cinzel

Font Set #4
IM Fell French Canon – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/IM+Fell+French+Canon
Georgia – https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/georgia/

Spanish

Font Set #1
Andada – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Andada
Questa Sans – http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/questa-sans
Georgia – https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/georgia/

Font Set #2
Oswald – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Oswald
Montserat – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat
Arimo – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Arimo

Font Set #3
Oswald – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Oswald
Oxygen – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Oxygen
Hind – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Hind

Font Set #4
Amatic SC – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Amatic+SC
PT Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/PT+Sans
Lato – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato
Hind – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Hind

Portuguese

Font Set #1
Libre Baskerville – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Libre+Baskerville
Monda – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Monda
Asap – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Asap

Font Set #2
Lora – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lora
PT Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/PT+Sans
Open Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans

Font Set #3
Josefin Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Josefin+Sans
Dosis – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Dosis
Hind – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Hind

Font Set #4
Pathway Gothic – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Pathway+Gothic+One
Roboto Condensed – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto+Condensed
Asap – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Asap

German

Font Set #1
Playfair Display – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Playfair+Display
Hind – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Hind

Font Set #2
Limelight – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Limelight
Benchnine – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/BenchNine
Economica – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Economica

Font Set #3
Josefin Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Josefin+Sans
Overlock – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Overlock
Fauna One – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Fauna+One

Font Set #4
Abril Fatface – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Abril+Fatface
Crete Round – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Crete+Round
Domine – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Domine

Cyrillic

Font Set #1
Comfortaa – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Comfortaa
PT Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/PT+Sans
Open Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans

Font Set #2
EB Garamond – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/EB+Garamond
Fira Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Fira+Sans
Cousine – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cousine

Font Set #3
Andika – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Andika
Oranienbaum – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Oranienbaum
Open Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans

Font Set #4
PT Serif Caption – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/PT+Serif+Caption
Roboto – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto
Playfair Display – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Playfair+Display

Swedish

Font Set #1
Alegreya – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Alegreya
Signika – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Signika

Font Set #2
Ecolier – http://www.dafont.com/ecolier.font
Courgette – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Courgette
Georgia – https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/georgia/
Gudea –  https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Gudea

Font Set #3
Pathway Gothic – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Pathway+Gothic+One
Francois One – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Francois+One
Open Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans

Font Set #4
Julius Sans – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Julius+Sans+One
Exo 2 – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Exo+2
Gudea – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Gudea

The trick to working with fonts is to experiment until it feels right. Let us know if any of the above worked for you and stay tuned, we’ll be adding more language groups to this list.

Flothemes,
Empowering You.