Syne
Syne breaks the rule that the weights of a family should look like the same typeface at different strengths. At 400 it is a clean geometric sans with a nearly circular o; at 800 it has grown so much wider that the letters flare and the whole thing reads as a different design. That divergence is deliberate — it was drawn for an art centre that wanted a face capable of arguing with itself on a poster. Use one end or the other and it behaves; use both in one line and you get the effect it was built for. It carries Greek as well as Latin.
See Syne in a paragraphCompare with Funnel Display and Gabarito
Syne at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- Yes · 5 weights
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- Yes
- Italic
- No
Alphabets
Style
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
Specification
- Designer
- Bonjour Monde, Lucas Descroix, George Triantafyllakos
- Released
- 2019
- Category
- Display
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Headlines, Posters, Branding, Editorial display
- Weights
- 400, 500, 600, 700, 800
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 711
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Greek
- Download size
- 77 KB
Syne character map
Latin110
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
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Latin Extended170
Western European
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
Central and Eastern European
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ī
- ī
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ŀ
- ŀ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ţ
- ţ
- Ť
- ť
- Ŧ
- ŧ
- Ū
- ū
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- Ÿ
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
Romanian and other
- Ș
- ș
- Ț
- ț
- ƒ
Türkçe14
- Ç
- ç
- Ğ
- ğ
- I
- ı
- İ
- i
- Ö
- ö
- Ş
- ş
- Ü
- ü
Greek69
Uppercase
- Α
- Β
- Γ
- Δ
- Ε
- Ζ
- Η
- Θ
- Ι
- Κ
- Λ
- Μ
- Ν
- Ξ
- Ο
- Π
- Ρ
- Σ
- Τ
- Υ
- Φ
- Χ
- Ψ
- Ω
Lowercase
- α
- β
- γ
- δ
- ε
- ζ
- η
- θ
- ι
- κ
- λ
- μ
- ν
- ξ
- ο
- π
- ρ
- ς
- σ
- τ
- υ
- φ
- χ
- ψ
- ω
Accented
- Ά
- Έ
- Ή
- Ί
- Ό
- Ύ
- Ώ
- ΐ
- Ϊ
- Ϋ
- ά
- έ
- ή
- ί
- ΰ
- ϊ
- ϋ
- ό
- ύ
- ώ
Use Syne on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Syne';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put syne.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/syne.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400 800;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/syne.css">body {
font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
}Questions
- Is Syne free for commercial use?
- Yes. Syne 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 Syne in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Syne belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Bonjour Monde, Lucas Descroix, George Triantafyllakos. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Syne?
- 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. Syne is a variable font: the single file carries all 5 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Syne that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 5 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Syne support Turkish?
- Yes. Syne 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 Syne support?
- Syne covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Greek, across 711 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- What weights does Syne come in?
- Syne comes in 5 weights: Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700) and Extra Bold (800). 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 Syne?
- Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 43 KB against 60 KB for the complete file, 28% 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 Syne as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is syne.woff2, and it is about 60 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.
Syne 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
- Taken unmodified from google/fonts
- The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
- This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026
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Cite this page
Syne font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/syne (updated 2026-09-04)