- Heading
- Kaushan Script
- Body text
- Gentium Plus
- 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
Kaushan Script
About the font
Kaushan Script is a free font by Impallari Type, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 368 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 45% of the em and the capital height is 71%.
Kaushan Script is a handwriting font in the handwriting category, released under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use. It was designed by Impallari Type and includes 414 glyphs in the Latin script. The font comes in one style, Regular at weight 400, and it is not a variable font. According to its source notes, the design deliberately avoids typographical perfection to stay more natural, and it is adjusted to remain readable at small sizes on the web.
Author
Impallari Type
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
414
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- playful
- Design
- brush
- connected script
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Kaushan Script has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 368 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
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- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Morisyen
- Kʼicheʼ
…and 263 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) — Not included
- Numero sign — Not included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 397
- x-height
- 45% of the em
- Capital height
- 71% of the em
- Version
- 1.002
- 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 - Fractions
frac - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Stylistic alternates
salt
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/Kaushan+Script
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Kaushan Script font free to use?
Yes. Kaushan Script is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Kaushan Script support Cyrillic?
No, Kaushan Script supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Kaushan Script support?
Kaushan Script covers 368 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 Kaushan Script?
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 Kaushan Script?
Kaushan Script was created by Impallari Type.
What is Kaushan Script good for?
Judging by its design, Kaushan Script suits: invitations, logos, headings.
Pairs well with Kaushan Script
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- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
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