Brygada 1918
A Polish team's revival of a type cut in 1918, released for the centenary of the country regaining independence — which is the sort of brief that usually produces something ceremonial and here produced a working text face. Its character set is unusually wide for a revival: Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, with the diacritics Polish actually needs rather than the ones a Latin default supplies. Four weights with italics.
Alphabets
Style
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Capitalics, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka, Ania Wieluńska, Przemysław Hoffer
- Foundry
- Capitalics
- Released
- 2021
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Long-form reading, Editorial, Documents, Multilingual setting
- Weights
- 400, 500, 600, 700
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 1,499
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Download size
- 240 KB
Size ladder
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12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Brygada 1918 character map
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use Brygada 1918 on the web
Self-hosted
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OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Brygada 1918 free for commercial use?
- Yes. Brygada 1918 is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Brygada 1918 in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Brygada 1918 belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Capitalics, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka, Ania Wieluńska, Przemysław Hoffer. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Brygada 1918?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Brygada 1918 is a variable font: those files carry all 4 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Brygada 1918 that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 8 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Brygada 1918 support Turkish?
- Yes. Brygada 1918 includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- What languages does Brygada 1918 support?
- Yes. Brygada 1918 covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Vietnamese, across 1,499 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.