Besley

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Specification

Designer

Owen Earl

Foundry

indestructible type

Released

2019

Category

Serif

Alternative to

Clarendon

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Headlines, Editorial, Book covers, Body text

Weights

400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

Styles

Normal, Italic

Variable

Yes

Glyphs

457

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe

Download size

120 KB

Source

github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/besley

Questions

Is Besley free for commercial use?

Yes. Besley 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 Besley in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Besley belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Owen Earl. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Besley?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 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. Besley is a variable font: those files carry all 6 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Besley that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 12 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.

Does Besley support Turkish?

Yes. Besley includes the characters Türkçe 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.

What languages does Besley support?

Besley covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 457 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

What weights does Besley come in?

Besley comes in 6 weights: Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700), Extra Bold (800) and Black (900). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.

Where can I download Besley as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is besley.woff2, and it is about 51 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.