- Heading
- Fruktur
- Body text
- Merriweather Sans
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Fruktur
About the font
Fruktur is a free font by Viktoriya Grabowska, Eben Sorkin, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 623 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 58% of the em and the capital height is 75%.
Fruktur is a display font by Viktoriya Grabowska and Eben Sorkin. It is a lively serif design inspired by italic and blackletter shapes, and it supports the Latin script with 809 glyphs. The family has 2 styles, Roman and Italic, both at weight 400, and it is a static font rather than a variable one. Fruktur is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Viktoriya Grabowska, Eben Sorkin
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
809
Character and uses
- Mood
- playful
- friendly
- bold
- Design
- blackletter
- decorative
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Fruktur has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 623 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
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
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- Madurese
- 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
- Romany
- 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 513 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 — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Not 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
- 731
- x-height
- 58% of the em
- Capital height
- 75% of the em
- Version
- 1.008; 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 - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - 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/Fruktur
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Fruktur font free to use?
Yes. Fruktur is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Fruktur support Cyrillic?
No, Fruktur supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Fruktur support?
Fruktur covers 623 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 Fruktur?
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 Fruktur?
Fruktur was created by Viktoriya Grabowska, Eben Sorkin.
What is Fruktur good for?
Judging by its design, Fruktur suits: tattoos, posters, headings, social media.
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