- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Agbalumo
About the font
Agbalumo is a free font by Raphael Alẹ́gbẹ́lẹ́yẹ̀, Sorkin Type, Eben Sorkin, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 888 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 50% of the em and the capital height is 72%.
Agbalumo is a display font by Raphael Alẹ́gbẹ́lẹ́yẹ̀, Sorkin Type and Eben Sorkin, designed to represent African languages and drawn primarily with a brush pen. It supports the Latin script and has 1708 glyphs in a single style with weight 400. It is a static font, not a variable font. The font is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license.
Author
Raphael Alẹ́gbẹ́lẹ́yẹ̀, Sorkin Type, Eben Sorkin
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
1708
Character and uses
- Mood
- playful
- friendly
- bold
- Design
- brush
- rounded
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Agbalumo has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 888 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
- Hakka Chinese
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Amharic
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Uzbek
- Cebuano
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- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Tunisian Arabic
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Tigrinya
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Fula
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Ewe
- Mandingo
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Lingala
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Tiv
- Kabyle
- Bikol
- Fon
- Waray
- Tachelhit
- Efik
…and 780 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 — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not 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 — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1474
- x-height
- 50% of the em
- Capital height
- 72% of the em
- Version
- 2.000; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (6)
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/Agbalumo
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Agbalumo font free to use?
Yes. Agbalumo is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Agbalumo support Cyrillic?
No, Agbalumo supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Agbalumo support?
Agbalumo covers 888 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.
How do I install Agbalumo?
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 Agbalumo?
Agbalumo was created by Raphael Alẹ́gbẹ́lẹ́yẹ̀, Sorkin Type, Eben Sorkin.
What is Agbalumo good for?
Judging by its design, Agbalumo suits: logos, posters, social media, headings.
Pairs well with Agbalumo
More pairs and your own text- A showy heading over a quiet text face
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