Barlow
Barlow was drawn from the public lettering of California — number plates, highway signs, the sides of buses and trains — and it keeps that flavour: low contrast, slightly rounded corners, nothing decorative anywhere. The rounding is subtle enough that most people register it as friendliness rather than as a rounded font, which is the useful place to be. It comes with semi-condensed and condensed siblings, so a whole interface can be set in one voice at three widths.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Vietnamesethe full set of stacked accents
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
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 it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Barlow';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/barlow.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Barlow', sans-serif;
}License
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 Barlow free for commercial use?
- Yes. Barlow 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 Barlow in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Barlow belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Jeremy Tribby. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Barlow?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 18 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.
- Does Barlow support Turkish?
- Yes. Barlow includes the characters Turkish 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.
- Does Barlow support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Barlow covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 694 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.