Libre Franklin

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Specification

Designer

Impallari Type

Released

2016

Category

Sans-serif

Alternative to

Franklin Gothic

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Body text, Headlines, Editorial, User interfaces

Weights

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

Styles

Normal, Italic

Variable

Yes

Glyphs

1,007

Languages

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

Download size

199 KB

Source

github.com/googlefonts/Libre-Franklin

Questions

Is Libre Franklin free for commercial use?

Yes. Libre Franklin 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 Libre Franklin in a logo?

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

How do I install Libre Franklin?

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. Libre Franklin is a variable font: those files carry 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 Libre Franklin that is Thin (100), not the regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 18 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.

Does Libre Franklin support Turkish?

Yes. Libre Franklin 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 Libre Franklin support?

Libre Franklin covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese, across 1,007 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Does Libre Franklin support Cyrillic?

Yes. Libre Franklin 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 Libre Franklin come in?

Libre Franklin 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). 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 Libre Franklin?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 44 KB against 80 KB for the complete file, 46% 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 Libre Franklin as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is libre-franklin.woff2, and it is about 80 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.