Vollkorn
The name is German for wholemeal and the face is exactly that: dark, blunt and filling, with serifs far heavier than a Renaissance text face would allow and a bounce along the baseline that keeps it from reading as heavy. It was the designer first typeface, released free in 2005 and quietly used everywhere since. The weight axis starts at 400 rather than at a light, which is the right decision for a face this solid but does mean there is no delicate end to reach for.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Extended
- Greek
- Vietnamesethe full set of stacked accents
Style
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Friedrich Althausen
- Released
- 2005
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Body text, Books, Editorial, Headlines
- Weights
- 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 2,303
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Download size
- 477 KB
Size ladder
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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
@font-face {
font-family: 'Vollkorn';
/* 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/vollkorn.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Vollkorn', 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 Vollkorn free for commercial use?
- Yes. Vollkorn 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 Vollkorn in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Vollkorn belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Friedrich Althausen. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Vollkorn?
- 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. Vollkorn is a variable font: those files carry all 6 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Vollkorn that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 12 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Vollkorn support Turkish?
- Yes. Vollkorn 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 Vollkorn support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Vollkorn covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Vietnamese, across 2,303 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.