- Heading
- Fjalla One
- Body text
- Alegreya
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- A shared mood: serious
- The body font is made for reading
Fjalla One
About the font
Fjalla One is a free font by Sorkin Type, Irina Smirnova, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 581 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 67% of the em and the capital height is 83%.
Fjalla One is a sans-serif font by Sorkin Type and Irina Smirnova, described by its source as a medium contrast display sans serif. It comes in one static style with a single weight, 400, and contains 777 glyphs covering the Latin script. A March 2023 update expanded its Latin language coverage. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Sorkin Type, Irina Smirnova
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
777
Character and uses
- Mood
- bold
- serious
- Design
- condensed
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Fjalla One has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 581 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
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- 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
- Sicilian
- Mandingo
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- 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
…and 473 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 — Not included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 700
- x-height
- 67% of the em
- Capital height
- 83% of the em
- Version
- 1.002; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b);gftools[0.9.25]
- 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 - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - 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/Fjalla+One
- Designer’s page
- sorkintype.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Fjalla One font free to use?
Yes. Fjalla 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 Fjalla One support Cyrillic?
No, Fjalla One supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Fjalla One support?
Fjalla One covers 581 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 Fjalla 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 Fjalla One?
Fjalla One was created by Sorkin Type, Irina Smirnova.
What is Fjalla One good for?
Judging by its design, Fjalla One suits: video titles and subtitles, headings, posters, social media.
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