David Libre

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Specification

Designer

Monotype Imaging Inc., SIL International, Meir Sadan

Released

2021

Category

Serif

Alternative to

David

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Body text, Long-form reading, Documents, Multilingual setting

Weights

400, 500, 700

Styles

Normal

Variable

No

Glyphs

851

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese, Hebrew

Download size

196 KB

Source

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

Questions

Is David Libre free for commercial use?

Yes. David Libre 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 David Libre in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in David Libre belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Monotype Imaging Inc., SIL International, Meir Sadan. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install David Libre?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 3 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 David Libre support Turkish?

Yes. David Libre 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 David Libre support?

David Libre covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Vietnamese and Hebrew, across 851 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

What weights does David Libre come in?

David Libre comes in 3 weights: Regular (400), Medium (500) and Bold (700). Each weight is its own file in the download.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of David Libre?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 33 KB against 50 KB for the complete file, 33% 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 David Libre as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is david-libre.woff2, and it is about 50 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.