Việt Type 2nd ed. Trương Support
Vietnamese Typography Second Edition Donny Trương Support This Book

Recommendations

The purpose for this guide is to collect and showcase typefaces with full support for Vietnamese. Although display typefaces contribute an important role in Vietnamese typography, the design of their diacritics can be playful and experimental. The focus, therefore, is on setting long-form text. Each typeface has been chosen based on flexibility, legibility, readability, and versatility of both the letters and their diacritical marks.

Adapter

True to its name, Adapter adapts to any typographic environment. From text to display, straight to slant, thin to thick, Adapter takes advantage of variable font technology to offer a modern sans serif typographic system that supports many languages. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: William Montrose, Sláva Jevčinová & David Březina
  • Foundry: Rosetta Type
  • Released: 2019
  • Font Format: Variable

Adelle Sans

With exuberant personality and clean appearance, Adelle Sans provides flexible typesetting for every situation and supports a wide range of languages. For Vietnamese, its acute and grave stack on top of its circumflex while its hook above stacks right.

  • Designers: Veronika Burian & José Scaglione
  • Foundry: TypeTogether
  • Released: 2012
  • Font Format: Variable

Albula Pro

A charismatic, geometric sans, Albula Pro lends versatility, legibility, and readability to contemporary designs. Albula Pro supports a wide range of languages. For Vietnamese, its grave and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex while its acute stacks left.

  • Designer: Silvio Meier
  • Foundry: Serpentype
  • Released: 2021
  • Font Format: Static

Alright

Alright is a friendly, flexible humanist sans with a wide range of weights, widths, and languages. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh
  • Foundry: Okay Type
  • Released: 2019
  • Font Format: Static

Amica Pro

With generous x-height and reduced ascenders and descenders, Amica Pro offers approachable typesettings from user-interface design to online reading. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack on top of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Dave Rowland
  • Foundry: Eclectotype
  • Released: 2019
  • Font Format: Static

Aneto

A memorable serif family, Aneto is designed to work in a wide range of editorial formats from digital to paper. With tall x-height, opened counters, and shortened ascenders and descenders, the Aneto family packs more text without compromising readability. For Vietnamese diacritics, its acute stacks on top and slightly to the left and its grave stacks on top and slightly to the right of its circumflex. The tail is an exemplary example of a hook above.

  • Designers: Veronika Burian, José Scaglione, Azza Alameddine & Roxane Gataud
  • Foundry: TypeTogether
  • Released: 2022
  • Font Format: Variable

Atlante

Tapping into the rich typographic and stylistic history of baroques, Garaldes, transitional, and modern categories, Atlante is a conventional-yet-excessive serif family for text and display with carefully crafted diacritics for Vietnamese. Its acute stacks high to the left of its circumflex. Its grave stacks high to the right of its circumflex. Its hook above stacks to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: Yorlmar Campos & Martín Sesto
  • Foundry: TypeTogether
  • Released: 2022
  • Font Format: Variable

Ballinger

With large counters and a generous x-height, Ballinger offers flexible typography for clear communications. Its open apertures and amble curves lend comfort and friendliness to user interface design as well as print publications. Ballinger has solid diacritics for Vietnamese. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack on top of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Max Phillips
  • Foundry: Signal Type
  • Released: 2018
  • Font Format: Static

Bree

With hand-lettering quality, varied rhythm, and a touch of cheekiness, Bree offers a versatile sans serif family that has personality and delicacy. Bree comes with an impressive support for languages. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: Veronika Burian & José Scaglione
  • Foundry: TypeTogether
  • Released: 2008
  • Font Format: Variable

Captura Now

A friendly, flexible sans-serif family, Captura Now offers the creative freedom to take on multilingual typesettings. For Vietnamese in particular, Captura Now’s diacritics are designed with clear positioning and balanced spacing. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Anita Jürgeleit
  • Foundry: TypeThis!
  • Released: 2021
  • Font Format: Variable

Case

Without the unnecessary elements from the neo-grotesque classics, Case reveals its modern essence with the focus on horizontal harmony. From display to text to micro, Case’s superfamily offers versatility, legibility, and utility. With the latest update, Case expands and supports international languages. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: Erik Spiekermann, Anja Meiners, and Ralph du Carrois
  • Foundry: Fontwerk
  • Released: 2016–2023
  • Font Format: Variable

Change

A humanist, lively sans family, Change lends clarity with characteristics and familiarity with peculiarity. From hardness to subtlety, Change’s contrast covers both texts and displays. For Vietnamese support, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Alessio Leonardi
  • Foundry: Fontwerk
  • Released: 2022
  • Font Format: Variable

Every

A workhorse serif family, Every is not only a legible, readable text face, but also an elegant, expressive display face. With three optical sizes, matching italics, and spiky serifs, Every covers a wide range of typographic challenges from print to screen, editorial to long form, and literary to economy. Every equips with Vietnamese diacritics. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Anita Jürgeleit
  • Foundry: TypeThis!
  • Released: 2021
  • Font Format: Static

Exchange

Inspired by the British “Ionic” style of slab serif, L. B. and M. F. Benton’s Century Expanded, and C.H. Griffith’s Bell Gothic, Exchange offers typesetting in limited space including newspaper and mobile devices. Exchange has clear, well-balanced diacritics. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex. Its tilde positions slightly toward the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
  • Foundry: Frere-Jones Type
  • Released: 2017
  • Font Format: Static

Fern

Fern is an elegant Venetian typeface that lends strength and grace to text on screens. Fern strikes the balance between humanist qualities and chunkiness forms. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex. Its tilde positions slightly toward the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: David Jonathan Ross
  • Foundry: DJR
  • Font Format: Static

Forma DJR

Started out as a refresh of the Italian neo-grotesque sans, Forma DJR takes on a life of its own with irregular details, tight spacings, and Swiss alternates. For Vietnamese, Forma DJR comes with straightened and curved horns. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: David Jonathan Ross with Ruggero Magrì & Roger Black
  • Foundry: DJR
  • Released: 2017, 2021
  • Font Format: Variable

Fragen

With sturdy slab serifs complemented by exuberant italics, Fragen is an eclectic-yet-harmonious type family inspired by nineteenth century Antiques and typewriter. While Fragen’s low contrast makes it legible for reading text, its distinctive feature makes it swell for display typography. Fragen comes with well-crafted diacritics for Vietnamese. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

Frequenz

With sound-wave inspiration, nonconformist rhythm, and optically adjusted appearance, Frequenz offers an unorthodox, uncompromising sans serif text face that surprisingly does not get in the way with the flow of reading. Frequenz has conventional diacritics with its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Sebastian Losch
  • Foundry: Kilotype
  • Released: 2018
  • Font Format: Static

Halyard

A grotesque sans with historical forms drawn from Schelter+Giesecke, Miller and Richard, and Morris Fuller Benton, Halyard offers a full range of typographic utility. The Halyard superfamily provides flexibility and robustness to work in any situation. For Vietnamese, its acute and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex, but its grave stacks to the left.

  • Designers: Joshua Darden, Eben Sorkin & Lucas Sharp
  • Foundry: Darden Studio
  • Font Format: Static

Harriet

Reimagining of Baskerville and Scotch Roman, Harriet is a multifaceted serif family ranging from exhilarating display to essential reading text. Harriet has superb Vietnamese diacritics. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh
  • Foundry: Okay Type
  • Released: 2019
  • Font Format: Static

Herbik

With buoyant and robust serifs, Herbik offers versatility, readability, and legibility to long-form reading text. Herbik is packed with sturdy Vietnamese diacritics. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Daniel Veneklaas
  • Foundry: Counter Forms
  • Released: 2023
  • Font Format: Static

Kaius

With generous x-heights, open apertures, fine-tuned rhythms, and sturdy serifs, Kaius offers a reliable text structure and supports languages and character requirements with ease. Kaius is a refreshing take on classic text typeface. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Lisa Fischbach
  • Foundry: TypeMates
  • Released: 2020
  • Font Format: Static

Lang

Based on nineteenth-century grave carvings, Lang is a quirky semi-slab type family that balances past and present, nature and design, and tradition and progress. Lang comes with solid diacritical marks. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: Stephen Nixon
  • Foundry: Arrow Type
  • Released: 2021
  • Font Format: Variable

Loretta

Rooted in calligraphy, Loretta offers elegance serifs, low contrasts, and open shapes to long-form reading pleasure. Loretta comes with vibrant italic to complement its regular style and diacritic to support multiple languages. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: Abel Martins & Joana Correia
  • Foundry: Nova Type
  • Released: 2021
  • Font Format: Static

Macan

A versatile Neo-Grotesque type family, Macan balances utility and vivacity. While Macan focuses on functionality, Macan Stencil brings quirky quality to the family. Both solid and stencil versions support Vietnamese. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: Fabian Fohrer with Vassilis Georgiou (Greek), Léon Hugues & Jovana Jocic (Cyrillic)
  • Foundry: TIGHTYPE
  • Released: 2023
  • Font Format: Static

Name Sans

With its modern take on NYC Subway’s mosaic name tablets, Name Sans offers a weight range from ultra to hairline, an optical size versatility from tight-fitting to generous-spacing, and a style flexibility from geometric display to readable text. Name Sans comes with well-considered diacritical marks and their positions. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designers: Stephen Nixon
  • Foundry: Arrow Type
  • Released: 2020
  • Font Format: Variable

Pangea

With compactness and unity, Pangea strikes the perfect balance between a narrow grotesque and condense geometric typeface. Pangea strives to save the world through its environmental-friendly approach and extensive support for languages. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Christoph Koeberlin
  • Foundry: Fontwerk
  • Released: 2020
  • Font Format: Variable

Pliego

Named after Pliegos de Cordel, Pliego offers a delightful reading experience with humanist forms and even textures. Its calligraphic details ebb at small sizes for comfortable reading, but flow at large sizes for playful display. Its diacritics are crafted with care to retain the humanist and calligraphic qualities throughout. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Juanjo López
  • Foundry: Huy!Fonts
  • Released: 2019
  • Font Format: Static

Roslindale

Inspired by De Vinne, Roslindale strikes the balance between utility and personality. Roslindale has rounded diacritics. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: David Jonathan Ross
  • Foundry: DJR
  • Font Format: Variable

Schotis

Inspired by Scotch Romans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Schotis is a workhorse text face for editorial and long-form text. Schotis has rounded, well-balanced diacritics. Its reversed tilde for italic appears playful for display text, but odd for reading text. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: Juanjo López
  • Foundry: Huy!Fonts
  • Released: 2017
  • Font Format: Static

Skolar

A robust serif family with conventional proportions and subtle personal styles, Skolar intends to solve complex typography across platforms and purposes. Skolar has solid, sturdy diacritical marks. While its acute and grave on lowercase letters stack to the right of its circumflex, they stack above on capital letters. Its counterpart, Skolar Sans, fills the need of early days for responsive web typography.

Warbler

An interpretation of Morris Fuller Benton’s 1928 Bulmer, Warbler takes William Martin’s transitional Transitional to the screens. Its soft serifs make digital reading pleasurable. Warbler has gentle diacritical marks. Its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

  • Designer: David Jonathan Ross
  • Foundry: DJR
  • Released: 2022
  • Font Format: Static