- Heading
- Bebas Neue
- Body text
- Arimo
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
Bebas Neue
About the font
Bebas Neue is a free font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 357 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 70% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
Bebas Neue is a display font designed by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. It supports the Latin script and contains 508 glyphs. The family has one style, Regular at weight 400, and it is not a variable font. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Ryoichi Tsunekawa
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
508
Character and uses
- Mood
- bold
- business-like
- Design
- condensed
- grotesque
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Bebas Neue has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 357 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
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- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- 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
- Romany
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- 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
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Morisyen
…and 252 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 — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not 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
- 461
- x-height
- 70% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 2.000
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn
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/Bebas+Neue
- Designer’s page
- dharmatype.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Bebas Neue font free to use?
Yes. Bebas Neue is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Bebas Neue support Cyrillic?
No, Bebas Neue supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Bebas Neue support?
Bebas Neue covers 357 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 Bebas Neue?
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 Bebas Neue?
Bebas Neue was created by Ryoichi Tsunekawa.
What is Bebas Neue good for?
Judging by its design, Bebas Neue suits: video titles and subtitles, headings, posters, packaging.
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