Josefin Slab
A 1930s geometric with slabs, and the giveaway is the x-height: the lowercase is tiny against the capitals, which is exactly the proportion the period liked and exactly what makes a page of it hard work. The designer put it between Kabel and Memphis, and that is where it lands. It is variable across a 100 to 700 weight axis with a matching italic, so it is more flexible than it looks, but it is a display face wearing a text face suit. Latin only.
Josefin Slab at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- Yes · 7 weights
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- No
- Italic
- Yes
Alphabets
Style
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
- Santiago Orozco
- Released
- 2010
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Titles, Posters, Short headings, Packaging
- Weights
- 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 216
- Languages
- Latin
- Download size
- 53 KB
Josefin Slab character map
Latin109
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
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- •
- …
Use Josefin Slab on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Josefin Slab';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put josefin-slab.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/josefin-slab.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 700;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Josefin Slab', serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/josefin-slab.css">body {
font-family: 'Josefin Slab', serif;
}Questions
- Is Josefin Slab free for commercial use?
- Yes. Josefin Slab 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 Josefin Slab in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Josefin Slab belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Santiago Orozco. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Josefin Slab?
- 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. Josefin Slab is a variable font: those files carry 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 Josefin Slab that is Thin (100), not the regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 14 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Josefin Slab support Turkish?
- No. Josefin Slab 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 Josefin Slab support?
- Josefin Slab covers Latin, across 216 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- What weights does Josefin Slab come in?
- Josefin Slab comes in 7 weights: Thin (100), Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600) and Bold (700). 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 Josefin Slab as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is josefin-slab.woff2, and it is about 22 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.
Josefin Slab 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
Pairs well with Josefin Slab
- Josefin Sans
The same family’s sans, drawn to sit beside Josefin Slab.
See the two side by side - Archivo
A sans to set the paragraphs under Josefin Slab.
See the two side by side
Cite this page
Josefin Slab font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/josefin-slab (updated 2026-09-04)