Truculenta
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/truculenta 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/truculenta/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Truculenta Variable", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* truculenta-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Truculenta Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/truculenta:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Truculenta is an irregular sans serif typeface based on mid-century lettering works, yet with a little twist. This quirky grotesque is a variable font with three axes (weight, width and optical size), allowing a wide range of text sizes without losing readability. This vibrant typeface is highly suitable for packaging, branding, book covers, illustrated editions, and film titles.
Truculenta was designed by Ivan Castro, Eva Sanz and Omnibus-Type Team. To contribute, see github.com/Omnibus-Type/Truculenta.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/truculenta Designed by
Omnibus-Type
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License
OFL-1.1