- Heading
- Open Runde
- Body text
- Roboto Slab
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Open Runde
About the font
Open Runde is a free font by lauridskern, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 927 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 55% of the em and the capital height is 73%.
Open Runde is a sans-serif font with rounded corners, released under the OFL-1.1 license and free to use. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts and contains 2549 glyphs. The family has 4 static styles, from Regular 400 to Bold 700, in weights 400, 500, 600 and 700. It was created by lauridskern as a rounded variant of Inter, and it is not a variable font.
Author
lauridskern
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
2549
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- calm
- Design
- rounded
- geometric
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Open Runde has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 927 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
- Greek
- 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
…and 816 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 — 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
- 2512
- x-height
- 55% of the em
- Capital height
- 73% of the em
- Version
- 1.001;Glyphs 3.1.2 (3151)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed, documents stay editable
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - 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.
How 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
- github.com/lauridskern/open-runde
- Designer’s page
- lau.ke
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Open Runde font free to use?
Yes. Open Runde is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Open Runde support Cyrillic?
Yes, Open Runde includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Open Runde support?
Open Runde covers 927 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 Open Runde?
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 Open Runde?
Open Runde was created by lauridskern.
What is Open Runde good for?
Judging by its design, Open Runde suits: interfaces, body text, headings.
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