Tuffy

Tuffy is a sans-serif family with regular and bold weights, available in upright and italic styles. Its broad set of supplied subsets makes it suitable for projects that need to work across several writing systems, including Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, and Phoenician. The family’s compact style range keeps selection clear and manageable.

Best suited for: Use Tuffy for body copy, headings, navigation, labels, and interface text where a sans-serif structure is useful. Regular can support longer passages and everyday information, while bold can bring attention to titles, buttons, or short calls to action. Italic adds a distinct secondary emphasis when needed.

Design considerations: With only regular and bold weights, Tuffy works best when hierarchy is built through size, spacing, and contrast rather than many weight steps. Reserve bold for clear emphasis, and use italic selectively for notes or highlighted terms. Test text at its intended size, especially when combining scripts or using dense layouts.

Pairing guidance: For contrast, pair Tuffy with a serif that has calm proportions and a readable texture, particularly for editorial or document-focused layouts. A restrained display face may also work for prominent titles, provided it does not compete with the bold weight. Keep supporting styles simple so Tuffy remains easy to read and organize.