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About Ancizar Serif Font
UNAL Ancízar is a highly versatile and legible typeface family, initially designed in 2014 to strengthen the institutional image of Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the country's largest public university. This typeface was initially designed by Professor César Puertas (Faculty of Arts, Bogotá Campus), Viviana Monsalve, and Julián Moncada, within the framework of a project led by Professor Jaime Franky Rodríguez (Director of the Communications & Media Unity - UNIMEDIOS), Martha Lucía Chaves Muñoz (Head of the Digital Media Office), and María Teresa Naranjo Castillo (Institutional Image Coordinator). In 2024, the University released the typeface family under the leadership of Professor Jaime Rodolfo Ramírez Rodríguez (director of UNIMEDIOS), to transcend the institution and constitute a contribution from UNAL to humanity. Naturally diverse, the UNAL Ancízar type family is designed for daily use in almost any condition. All fonts share a common structure that enhances both readability and identity, while a broad range of weights ensures adaptability for various needs. UNAL Ancízar is not only optimized for challenging print environments—its streamlined curves also perform exceptionally well on digital screens, giving text a unique personality that helps distinguish the university from others. The UNAL Ancízar type family is divided into two groups: Serif and Sans Serif, enhancing its versatility and adaptability to various applications. The Serif fonts are designed for long te
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Light, Classic, Refined, Serif
- Use Case
- Editorial, Print
- Ideal For
- book covers, long-form text, and traditional branding
- Pairs With
- a clean sans-serif for captions
Ancizar Serif Specifications
| Font Family | Ancizar Serif Light |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Ancizar Serif Light |
| Version | 8.100 |
| Weight | 300 (Light) |
| Glyph Count | 1091 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | AncizarSerif-Light |
| Designer | Cesar Puertas, Viviana Monsalve, Julian Moncada, Julian Prieto, Jose Castro, Felipe Aragon, Mariel Hernandez, Sara Alarcon, Raul Aponte |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 188.7 KB |
OpenType Features
Ancizar Serif ships with 14 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).
- Small capitals from capitals
- Case-sensitive forms
- Discretionary ligatures
- Fractions
- Standard ligatures
- Lining figures
- Old-style figures
- Ordinals
- Proportional figures
- Scientific inferiors
- Small capitals
- Subscripts
- Superscripts
- Tabular figures
- Variable font · axes: wght
Languages Supported
Ancizar Serif supports 319 languages.
How to Install Ancizar Serif Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Ancizar Serif font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Ancizar Serif is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Ancizar Serif Font
by Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), César Puertas, Viviana Monsalve, Julián Moncada
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026
















