Lato
Lato means summer in Polish, and Łukasz Dziedzic began it in the summer of 2010 as part of a corporate identity for a client who then went in a different direction — which is how a commissioned typeface ended up free. The proportions are classical, particularly in the capitals, while the details are semi-rounded rather than sharply cut, and that combination is where the warmth people notice in it comes from. It tries to be transparent in a paragraph and to show character at size, and mostly manages both.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Extended
- Greek
- Greek Extended
- Vietnamesethe full set of stacked accents
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
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 it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Lato';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/lato.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
}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
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 Turkish 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.
- Does Lato support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended and Vietnamese?
- Yes. 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.