Sans-serif typeface

from Fabio Haag Type
designed by Ana Laydner

Variable Font

2 axes: Weight, Italic

28 Styles

14 Weights: Thin to Ultratouch
with matching italics

Best for

  • Headings (display text)
  • Long reading text (body text)
  • User Interfaces (functional text)

License starting

around $150 (bundle)

Specialty

A versatile typeface that feels calm and friendly at small sizes, but reveals a strong and playful character in bolder weights.

My Drika Font Review

Drika is one of the rare typefaces that works from small functional text, to body text, and striking branding projects. At smaller sizes, Drika is a calm, friendly, a bit quirky typeface. Ideal for UI design, very legible and durable. But the larger and bolder you set it, the more its strong and playful character comes through.

Wild, Strong
And Tight! Or better Light & Airy? Drika is pairing functionality with playfulness Wide proportions and open letter shapes make Drika very durable, even for UI-text. Ultra to Ultratouch
A wide set of weights make Drika so versatile. Notice how the letter spacing changes from Ultra to Ultratouch.

Drika is equipped with 14 weights, of which most notable is the Ultratouch weight. At its ultra-boldest, the letters snap together, creating a dense, striking texture of letters. See how much impact the touching letters have in all caps. But also mixed case looks so sophisticated, here it really shows how much attention went into kerning it. This is obviously only something for headings or other attention-grabbing display text.

Customize Drika to your needs. Switch on straight terminals to calm it down, or turn on single-story characters to make it softer.

By default, Drika has angled terminals, a capital ‘I’ with serifs, and a lovely open looped lowercase ‘g’. Plenty of stylistic sets let you modify these and pick alternates. This makes it incredibly versatile for all kinds of applications.

Font Pairings with Drika

From its construction Drika is a dynamic linear, sans-serif typeface. Pair it with Sahlia or Kalnia if you want something classy and interesting for headings, or something else from this list.

Drika
Drika
  • Headings
  • Copy
  • UI Text

Learn more about pairing typefaces using the Font Matrix.


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