Lexend
Most typefaces start from how the letters should look. Lexend started from a reading specialist trying to reduce the visual stress that slows some readers down, and the shapes are downstream of that: wide apertures, generous spacing, and no detail that could be mistaken for another letter. Whether it makes a measurable difference is a question for the research rather than for a font archive, but the design decisions it produced are legible ones on their own terms. Nine weights on one axis, and there are seven sibling families at progressively wider spacing.
Alphabets
Style
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez, Superunion
- Released
- 2019
- Category
- Sans-serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Body text, Educational material, Interfaces, Long-form reading
- Weights
- 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 850
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese
- Download size
- 91 KB
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
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
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Lexend';
/* 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/lexend.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Lexend', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/lexend.css">body {
font-family: 'Lexend', 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 Lexend free for commercial use?
- Yes. Lexend 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 Lexend in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Lexend belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez, Superunion. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Lexend?
- 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. Lexend is a variable font: the single file carries all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Lexend that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 9 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Lexend support Turkish?
- Yes. Lexend 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.
- Does Lexend support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Lexend covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 850 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.