- Heading
- Libertinus Serif Display
- Body text
- EB Garamond
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: elegant, serious
Libertinus Serif Display
About the font
Libertinus Serif Display is a free font by Philipp H. Poll, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 510 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 41% of the em and the capital height is 66%.
Libertinus Serif Display is a display font with 2280 glyphs and a single style at weight 400. It supports the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, and it includes Kazakh, as it has all the extra Cyrillic letters that Kazakh requires. It is not a variable font. The font was designed by Philipp H. Poll and is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Author
Philipp H. Poll
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
2280
Character and uses
- Mood
- elegant
- serious
- Design
- high contrast
- humanist
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Libertinus Serif Display has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 510 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
- Hakka Chinese
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
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- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
…and 400 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 — 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
- 2081
- x-height
- 41% of the em
- Capital height
- 66% of the em
- Version
- 7.051;RELEASE
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Kerning
kern
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/Libertinus+Serif+Display
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Libertinus Serif Display font free to use?
Yes. Libertinus Serif Display is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Libertinus Serif Display support Cyrillic?
Yes, Libertinus Serif Display includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Libertinus Serif Display support?
Libertinus Serif Display covers 510 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 Libertinus Serif Display?
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 Libertinus Serif Display?
Libertinus Serif Display was created by Philipp H. Poll.
What is Libertinus Serif Display good for?
Judging by its design, Libertinus Serif Display suits: headings, magazines and editorial, posters.
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