Lobster
For about three years this was the face of every café menu and craft label on the internet, which is a fair test of a typeface and a hard thing to come back from. Look past the ubiquity and it is a well-made bold script: a single weight carrying over a thousand glyphs, most of them alternate letterforms sitting behind the stylistic-alternate and initial-form features rather than applied for you. Its feature list has no contextual alternates at all, which is worth knowing before you expect it to rearrange itself around a word. It is a sign-painting face and it behaves like one — one line, large, and nothing more asked of it.
Alphabets
Style
Specification
- Designer
- Impallari Type
- Foundry
- Impallari Type
- Released
- 2010
- Category
- Display
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Titles, Logotypes, Menus and signage, Packaging
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 1,174
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Download size
- 147 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: 'Lobster';
/* 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/lobster.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Lobster', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/lobster.css">body {
font-family: 'Lobster', 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 Lobster free for commercial use?
- Yes. Lobster 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 Lobster in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Lobster 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 Lobster?
- 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.
- Does Lobster support Turkish?
- Yes. Lobster 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 Lobster support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Lobster covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese, across 1,174 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.