Lato

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Specification

Designer

Łukasz Dziedzic

Released

2010

Category

Sans-serif

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Body text, Headlines, Corporate identity, Presentations

Weights

100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

Styles

Normal, Italic

Variable

No

Glyphs

3,023

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese

Download size

6.1 MB

Source

www.latofonts.com

Questions

Is Lato free for commercial use?

Yes. Lato 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 Lato in a logo?

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

How do I install Lato?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 18 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 Lato support Turkish?

Yes. Lato 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 Lato support?

Lato covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended and Vietnamese, across 3,023 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Does Lato support Cyrillic?

Yes. Lato 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 Lato come in?

Lato comes in 9 weights: Thin (100), Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700), Extra Bold (800) and Black (900). Each weight is its own file in the download.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Lato?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 93 KB against 207 KB for the complete file, 55% 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 Lato as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is lato.woff2, and it is about 207 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.