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- Black Ops One
- Body text
- Pliant
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: technical
Black Ops One
About the font
Black Ops One is a free font by James Grieshaber, Eben Sorkin, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 522 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 65%.
Black Ops One is a display font designed by James Grieshaber and Eben Sorkin, inspired by military stencil lettering. It supports the Latin script and contains 760 glyphs. The font has one style, weight 400, and is not a variable font. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
James Grieshaber, Eben Sorkin
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
760
Character and uses
- Mood
- bold
- rugged
- technical
- Design
- geometric
- slab serif
- decorative
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Black Ops One has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 522 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
- Igbo
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
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- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- 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
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Sicilian
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Lingala
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Fon
- Waray
- Efik
- Ibibio
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Luba-Katanga
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
…and 415 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 — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 693
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 65% of the em
- Version
- 1.004; 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 - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - 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/Black+Ops+One
- Designer’s page
- typeco.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Black Ops One font free to use?
Yes. Black Ops One is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Black Ops One support Cyrillic?
No, Black Ops One supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Black Ops One support?
Black Ops One covers 522 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 Black Ops One?
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 Black Ops One?
Black Ops One was created by James Grieshaber, Eben Sorkin.
What is Black Ops One good for?
Judging by its design, Black Ops One suits: video titles and subtitles, posters, logos, headings.
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