Sora
Sora means sky in Japanese, and it was commissioned by Soramitsu for a blockchain project rather than drawn speculatively — unusual for a face this widely used. Jonathan Barnbrook built it around cues from early screen typography and low-resolution lettering, but without the retro affectation that reference usually drags along with it. The practical result is a very large x-height and unusually open counters, so it holds up in the small, dense text an interface is actually made of.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
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: 'Sora';
/* 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/sora.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 800;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Sora', 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 Sora free for commercial use?
- Yes. Sora 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 Sora in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Sora belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Jonathan Barnbrook, Julián Moncada. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Sora?
- 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. Sora is a variable font: the single file carries all 8 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — only reads the first weight and will show it as Regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 8 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Sora support Turkish?
- Yes. Sora 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 Sora support Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish?
- Yes. Sora covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 513 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.