Bowlby One
Fat rounded letters with the counters squeezed to slits, the lettering of a comic panel or a fairground sign. Unlike most faces this heavy it has a genuine lowercase rather than a second set of capitals, which is what lets a headline in it read as a sentence instead of as a shout. One weight, and it is a poster face — at text size the counters fill in and the words turn into blocks.
Bowlby One at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- No · 1 weight
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- No
- Italic
- No
Alphabets
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Specification
- Designer
- Vernon Adams
- Foundry
- Astigmatic
- Released
- 2011
- Category
- Display
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Titles, Posters, Packaging, Logotypes
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 293
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended
- Download size
- 37 KB
Bowlby One character map
Latin110
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
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Latin Extended77
Western European
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
Central and Eastern European
- ı
- Ł
- ł
- Œ
- œ
- Š
- š
- Ÿ
- Ž
- ž
Romanian and other
- Ș
- ș
- Ț
- ț
- ƒ
Use Bowlby One on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Bowlby One';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put bowlby-one.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/bowlby-one.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Bowlby One', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/bowlby-one.css">body {
font-family: 'Bowlby One', sans-serif;
}Questions
- Is Bowlby One free for commercial use?
- Yes. Bowlby One 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 Bowlby One in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Bowlby One belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Vernon Adams. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Bowlby One?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file 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 Bowlby One support Turkish?
- No. Bowlby One covers Latin, but not the extra characters Türkçe needs — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ and ş. Text set in it would come out with missing or wrong letters.
- What languages does Bowlby One support?
- Bowlby One covers Latin and Latin Extended, across 293 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Bowlby One?
- Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 24 KB against 28 KB for the complete file, 16% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.
- Where can I download Bowlby One as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is bowlby-one.woff2, and it is about 28 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.
Bowlby One 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
- Taken unmodified from google/fonts
- The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
- This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026
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Cite this page
Bowlby One font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/bowlby-one (updated 2026-09-04)