Frank Ruhl Libre

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Specification

Designer

Yanek Iontef

Released

2015

Category

Serif

Alternative to

Frank Ruehl

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Hebrew body text, Books, Editorial, Long-form reading

Weights

300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

Styles

Normal

Variable

Yes

Glyphs

604

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Hebrew

Download size

94 KB

Source

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

Questions

Is Frank Ruhl Libre free for commercial use?

Yes. Frank Ruhl 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 Frank Ruhl Libre in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Frank Ruhl 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 Yanek Iontef. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Frank Ruhl Libre?

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. Frank Ruhl Libre is a variable font: the single file carries all 7 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Frank Ruhl Libre that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 7 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.

Does Frank Ruhl Libre support Turkish?

Yes. Frank Ruhl 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 Frank Ruhl Libre support?

Frank Ruhl Libre covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Hebrew, across 604 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

What weights does Frank Ruhl Libre come in?

Frank Ruhl Libre comes in 7 weights: Light (300), 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.

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

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 51 KB against 74 KB for the complete file, 32% 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 Frank Ruhl Libre as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is frank-ruhl-libre.woff2, and it is about 74 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.