- Heading
- Afacad
- Body text
- Libertinus Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm
- The body font is made for reading
Afacad
About the font
Afacad is a free font by Kristian Möller, Dicotype, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 383 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 42% of the em and the capital height is 63%.
Afacad is a sans-serif font released under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use. It supports the Latin script and contains 845 glyphs. The font is a variable font with 8 styles covering weights from 400 to 700. It was designed by Kristian Möller and Dicotype.
Author
Kristian Möller, Dicotype
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
845
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- business-like
- Design
- geometric
- monoline
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Afacad has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 383 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
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- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Bini
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
…and 277 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Not included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 669
- x-height
- 42% of the em
- Capital height
- 63% of the em
- Version
- 1.000
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (4)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Afacad
- Designer’s page
- ktkm.se
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Afacad font free to use?
Yes. Afacad is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Afacad support Cyrillic?
No, Afacad supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Afacad support?
Afacad covers 383 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Afacad a variable font?
Yes. Afacad is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Afacad?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Afacad?
Afacad was created by Kristian Möller, Dicotype.
What is Afacad good for?
Judging by its design, Afacad suits: headings, body text, interfaces.
Pairs well with Afacad
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