- Heading
- Lunasima
- Body text
- Noto Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Lunasima
About the font
Lunasima is a free font by The DocRepair Project, Google, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 855 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 72%.
Lunasima is a free sans-serif font under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, with 1945 glyphs across two static styles, Regular (400) and Bold (700). The DocRepair Project and Google made it as a fallback for Lucida Grande, intended to minimise text reflow in Office Open XML documents, and it is based on Noto Sans.
Author
The DocRepair Project, Google
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1945
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- serious
- Design
- humanist
- monoline
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Lunasima has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 855 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
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Hakka Chinese
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
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- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Tunisian Arabic
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Ewe
- Mandingo
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Lingala
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Tiv
- Kabyle
- Bikol
- Fon
- Waray
…and 744 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) — 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
- 1937
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 72% of the em
- Version
- 2.009
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig
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/Lunasima
- Designer’s page
- github.com/docrepair-fonts/lunasima-fonts
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Lunasima font free to use?
Yes. Lunasima is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Lunasima support Cyrillic?
Yes, Lunasima includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Lunasima support?
Lunasima covers 855 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 Lunasima?
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 Lunasima?
Lunasima was created by The DocRepair Project, Google.
What is Lunasima good for?
Judging by its design, Lunasima suits: interfaces, body text, magazines and editorial.
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