Mulish

Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly · 2011 · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Mulish is a minimalist sans that Vernon Adams began in 2011 and refined for three years on the back of user feedback — tightening the spacing, adding weights, correcting glyphs one at a time. After he died in 2017 Jacques Le Bailly finished the work with Adams's widow, who holds the trademark on the name, which is a more human history than most typefaces have. It is drawn to work at text and display size both, and the weight axis runs to 1000 for when a heading needs to shout.

Variable · 204 KB · 2 files

All weights in one file, for Figma, Illustrator, InDesign and the web.

In Word or Canva it installs as Extra Light (200), not the regular — take the static file below for those.

Static · 812 KB · 16 files

One file per weight, works everywhere including older Word and Photoshop.

The license file is inside both zips.

Alphabets

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

Weight — 400

Specification

Designer
Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly
Foundry
Released
2011
Category
Sans-serif
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Body text, User interfaces, Headlines, Documents
Weights
200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000
Styles
Normal, Italic
Variable
Yes
Glyphs
1,063
Languages
Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
Download size
204 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

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Mulish';
  /* 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/mulish.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 200 1000;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Mulish', 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

Designed by Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly

Copyright 2016 The Mulish Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/mulish)

Read the full license text · What these licenses mean

The license file is included inside the download.

Questions

Is Mulish free for commercial use?
Yes. Mulish 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 Mulish in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Mulish belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install Mulish?
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. Mulish 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 Mulish that is Extra Light (200), not the regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 16 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
Does Mulish support Turkish?
Yes. Mulish 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 Mulish support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese?
Yes. Mulish covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese, across 1,063 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

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