Golos Text

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Specification

Designer

Alexandra Korolkova, Vitaly Kuzmin

Released

2023

Category

Sans-serif

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Body text, Interfaces, Documents, Long-form reading

Weights

400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

Styles

Normal

Variable

Yes

Glyphs

643

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended

Download size

96 KB

Source

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

Questions

Is Golos Text free for commercial use?

Yes. Golos Text 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 Golos Text in a logo?

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

How do I install Golos Text?

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. Golos Text is a variable font: the single file carries 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 Golos Text that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 6 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.

Does Golos Text support Turkish?

Yes. Golos Text 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 Golos Text support?

Golos Text covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic and Cyrillic Extended, across 643 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Does Golos Text support Cyrillic?

Yes. Golos Text includes the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Cyrillic Extended set as well, which adds the letters for languages beyond Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian. This was read from the font file itself. The complete WOFF2 and the zip both carry it; only the Latin-only web file leaves it out.

What weights does Golos Text come in?

Golos Text 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.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Golos Text?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 44 KB against 75 KB for the complete file, 41% 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 Golos Text as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is golos-text.woff2, and it is about 75 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.