- Heading
- Comfortaa
- Body text
- Noto Sans Old Permic
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Comfortaa
About the font
Comfortaa is a free font by Johan Aakerlund, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 457 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 55% of the em and the capital height is 78%.
Comfortaa is a display font by Johan Aakerlund, released free of charge under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1). It is a rounded geometric sans-serif intended for large sizes. The family has 5 styles with weights from 300 to 700 and is a variable font. The character set contains 874 glyphs and supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh.
Author
Johan Aakerlund
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
874
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- calm
- Design
- geometric
- rounded
- monoline
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Comfortaa has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 457 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Uzbek
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
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- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
…and 347 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) — 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
- 850
- x-height
- 55% of the em
- Capital height
- 78% of the em
- Version
- 3.105
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (1)
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/Comfortaa
- Designer’s page
- aajohan.deviantart.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Comfortaa font free to use?
Yes. Comfortaa is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Comfortaa support Cyrillic?
Yes, Comfortaa includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Comfortaa support?
Comfortaa covers 457 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 Comfortaa a variable font?
Yes. Comfortaa 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 Comfortaa?
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 Comfortaa?
Comfortaa was created by Johan Aakerlund.
What is Comfortaa good for?
Judging by its design, Comfortaa suits: headings, social media, logos, invitations.
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