Display · Sébastien Hayez
Victorianna
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CSSfont-family: 'Victorianna', sans-serif; font-weight: 200; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Victorianna is a free display font by Sébastien Hayez, from Velvetyne. Among the 554 display faces on FontKind, Victorianna has an x-height shorter than 75%, is narrower than 64% and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 97%. Its thickest strokes are 1.0 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Grandiflora One
Victorianna on one light table with its two closest fonts, Grandiflora One (89 out of 100) and Nixie One (83). Grandiflora One has an x-height 17% shorter; Nixie One is 45% heavier and 19% wider.
Victorianna and Grandiflora One laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with VictoriannaGrandiflora One…
Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.
02 / Letters
The Victorianna alphabet
Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 200
Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Styles
Victorianna, upright and italic
1 weight (200), with italics
- 200 Extra light, with its italic
04 / Facts
Who made Victorianna, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Sébastien Hayez
- Kind
- Display
- Styles
- 1 weight (200), with italics
- From
- Velvetyne
- Character sets
- latin
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Victorianna is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Victorianna comes from Velvetyne. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from Velvetyne first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Victorianna, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Victorianna under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Victorianna, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 48.8% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 78.8% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.62lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 47.7% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 13%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.01 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among display faces
Ranked against all 554 display faces on FontKind
x-heightSmaller than 75% of display faces
WidthNarrower than 64% of display faces
InkLighter than 97% of display faces
ContrastMore even than 80% of display faces
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Victorianna
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Grandiflora One89x-height 17% shorter
- Nixie One8345% heavier · 19% wider
- Kalnia Glaze7322% wider · x-height 6% taller
- Life Savers68117% heavier · x-height 11% shorter · more stroke contrast
- Almendra Display6537% lighter · more stroke contrast · x-height 4% taller
- Josefin Slab62130% heavier · x-height 23% shorter
All 100 fonts similar to Victorianna →Compare side by side →Get Victorianna on Velvetyne
07 / Swap
Swap Victorianna without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Almendra Display65text 0.8% narrower · x-height 3.5% taller
- Sinistre30text 0.8% narrower · x-height 2.5% taller
- Melodrama20text 2.2% wider · x-height 3.7% taller
- Siren and Sailor11text 2.8% narrower · x-height 2.6% taller
Fallback while it loads
Until Victorianna loads, this sets Arial in its place at 93.1% of its size, so running text keeps Victorianna’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Victorianna Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 93.13%;
ascent-override: 85.88%;
descent-override: 21.50%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
font-family: 'Victorianna', 'Victorianna Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Victorianna
Answered from its licence, Velvetyne and each app’s own font list
Is Victorianna free for commercial use?
Yes. Victorianna is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.
How do I download and install Victorianna?
Victorianna comes free from Velvetyne . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its fonts/VictoriannaThint_Web folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .
Is Victorianna in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Victorianna comes from Velvetyne. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.
How many weights does Victorianna have?
Victorianna comes in one weight, ExtraLight (200), with an italic. Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Who designed Victorianna?
Victorianna was designed by Sébastien Hayez. Sébastien Hayez also made Cantique.
What fonts are similar to Victorianna?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Grandiflora One (89), Nixie One (83) and Kalnia Glaze (73), out of 100. Next to Victorianna, Grandiflora One has an x-height 17% shorter. See all 100 fonts like Victorianna.