- Heading
- Hack
- Body text
- PT Serif Caption
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Hack
About the font
Hack is a free font by source-foundry, released under the MIT license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 412 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 55% of the em and the capital height is 73%.
Hack is a monospace font released under the MIT license, so it is free to use. It was created by source-foundry and comes in 4 styles with weights 400 and 700, including Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic. The font contains 1655 glyphs and supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, with all the extra Cyrillic letters needed for Kazakh. It is a static font rather than a variable font.
Author
source-foundry
License terms
MIT
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1655
Character and uses
- Mood
- serious
- business-like
- Design
- monoline
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Hack has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 412 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
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
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- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- 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
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Armenian
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- 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
- Chuvash
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Macedonian
…and 304 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 — Not 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) — 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
- 1548
- x-height
- 55% of the em
- Capital height
- 73% of the em
- Monospaced
- Yes
- Version
- 3.003;[3114f1256]-release; ttfautohint (v1.7) -l 6 -
- 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 - 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.
MIT
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed
- Sharing the font
- Allowed
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Allowed
The MIT license asks you to keep the copyright and permission notice in copies of the font.
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
- github.com/source-foundry/Hack
- Designer’s page
- github.com/source-foundry/Hack
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Hack font free to use?
Yes. Hack is distributed under the MIT license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Hack support Cyrillic?
Yes, Hack includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Hack support?
Hack covers 412 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 Hack?
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 Hack?
Hack was created by source-foundry.
What is Hack good for?
Judging by its design, Hack suits: code, interfaces, body text.
Pairs well with Hack
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