- Heading
- Montserrat Underline
- Body text
- Lora
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, elegant
- The heading font is made for headings
Lora
About the font
Lora is a free font by Cyreal, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 468 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 50% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
Lora is a serif font by Cyreal with 892 glyphs and 8 styles, with weights from 400 to 700. It is a variable font. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, and Kazakh is covered with all the extra Cyrillic letters that the language needs. Lora is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Cyreal
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
892
Character and uses
- Mood
- elegant
- calm
- Design
- high contrast
- slab serif
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Lora has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 468 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
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
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- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- 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
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- 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
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
…and 358 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 — 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 — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 778
- x-height
- 50% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 3.008
- 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 - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - 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/Lora
- Designer’s page
- cyreal.org
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Lora font free to use?
Yes. Lora is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Lora support Cyrillic?
Yes, Lora includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Lora support?
Lora covers 468 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 Lora a variable font?
Yes. Lora 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 Lora?
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 Lora?
Lora was created by Cyreal.
What is Lora good for?
Judging by its design, Lora suits: body text, magazines and editorial, headings, invitations.
Pairs well with Lora
More pairs and your own text- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, elegant
- The heading font is made for headings
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