- Heading
- Golos Text
- Body text
- PT Serif Caption
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Golos Text
About the font
Golos Text is a free font by Alexandra Korolkova, Vitaly Kuzmin, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 405 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
Golos Text is a sans-serif font by Alexandra Korolkova and Vitaly Kuzmin, designed for continuous reading on screen. It is a variable font with six styles covering weights from 400 to 900, and it contains 643 glyphs. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh, so it includes the extra Cyrillic letters needed for Kazakh. Golos Text is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Author
Alexandra Korolkova, Vitaly Kuzmin
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
643
Character and uses
- Mood
- business-like
- serious
- Design
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Golos Text has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 405 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
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
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- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Tatar
- Slovenian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Scots
- North Ndebele
…and 297 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 — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Not 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 — Not included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 566
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 2.004
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - 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/Golos+Text
- Designer’s page
- paratype.com/help/designers
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Golos Text font free to use?
Yes. Golos Text is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Golos Text support Cyrillic?
Yes, Golos Text includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Golos Text support?
Golos Text covers 405 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 Golos Text a variable font?
Yes. Golos Text 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 Golos Text?
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 Golos Text?
Golos Text was created by Alexandra Korolkova, Vitaly Kuzmin.
What is Golos Text good for?
Judging by its design, Golos Text suits: interfaces, body text, headings, magazines and editorial.
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