- Heading
- Onest
- Body text
- PT Serif Caption
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
Onest
About the font
Onest is a free font by Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 816 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 71%.
Onest is a sans-serif font in the sans-serif category. It is a variable font with 9 styles, with weights ranging from 100 to 900. The font supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts as well as Kazakh and contains 876 glyphs in total. Onest was designed by Dmitri Voloshin and Andrey Kudryavtsev and is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
876
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- business-like
- Design
- grotesque
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Onest has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 816 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
- Hakka Chinese
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
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- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Tunisian Arabic
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- 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
…and 705 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 — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 780
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 71% of the em
- Version
- 2.001
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (2)
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/Onest
- Designer’s page
- onest.md
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Onest font free to use?
Yes. Onest is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Onest support Cyrillic?
Yes, Onest includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Onest support?
Onest covers 816 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 Onest a variable font?
Yes. Onest 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 Onest?
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 Onest?
Onest was created by Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev.
What is Onest good for?
Judging by its design, Onest suits: interfaces, body text, headings.
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