- Heading
- Flow Block
- Body text
- IBM Plex Sans Thai
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- A shared mood: serious, technical
Flow Block
About the font
Every letter of this font is drawn as the same block. It stands in for text in mockups and wireframes, so the previews show blocks, not words.
Flow Block is a free font by Dan Ross, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 619 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 32% of the em and the capital height is 64%.
Flow Block is a display font by Dan Ross with 800 glyphs and one style at weight 400. It is a static font, not a variable font. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh, including the extra Cyrillic letters used in Kazakh. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Dan Ross
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
800
Character and uses
- Mood
- technical
- serious
- Design
- geometric
- slab serif
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Flow Block has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 619 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Ukrainian
- Igbo
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
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- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Sicilian
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Fon
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
…and 512 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 — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — 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
- 765
- x-height
- 32% of the em
- Capital height
- 64% of the em
- Version
- 1.101; ttfautohint (v1.8.3)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Fractions
frac - 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/Flow+Block
- Designer’s page
- danross.co/flow
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Flow Block font free to use?
Yes. Flow Block is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Flow Block support Cyrillic?
Yes, Flow Block includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Flow Block support?
Flow Block covers 619 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 Flow Block?
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 Flow Block?
Flow Block was created by Dan Ross.
What is Flow Block good for?
Judging by its design, Flow Block suits: interfaces, headings, code.
Pairs well with Flow Block
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