Poly

Designed by Nicolás Silva

1 weights • Version 18 • On Google Fonts since 2011 • Popularity #854

Quick Summary

2

Styles · incl. italic

400-400

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

2

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
display
Descriptors
code
Scripts
Latin
Origin
United States
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 8, 2025

© 2010 by Jos Nicols Silva Schwarzenberg.<info@nsilva.com>, with Reserved Font Names "Poly".

The quick brown fox

32px

About Poly Fonts

Poly is a medium contrast serif font. With short ascenders and a very high x-height, Poly is efficient in small sizes. Thanks to its careful balance between the x-height and glyph widths, it allows more economy and legibility than standard web serifs, even in small sizes. This font was originally designed to compose texts in agglutinative languages; these contain very long words. The goal was to develop a typeface that would tolerate cramped tracking and that would increase the number of letters on a single line.

Poly is a Unicode typeface family that supports Open Type features and languages that use the Latin script and its variants, especially Native South American language families.

Who Designed Poly?

Nicolás Silva portrait

Nicolás Silva

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