- Heading
- Overused Grotesk
- Body text
- IBM Plex Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Overused Grotesk
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Overused Grotesk is a free font by RandomMaerks, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 401 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 50% of the em and the capital height is 65%.
Overused Grotesk is a sans-serif font by RandomMaerks with 1117 glyphs and 9 styles, with weights ranging from 200 to 900. It is a variable font and supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts, including Kazakh. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
RandomMaerks
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1117
Character and uses
- Mood
- serious
- business-like
- Design
- grotesque
- wide
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Overused Grotesk has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 401 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
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
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- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- 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
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Tatar
- Slovenian
- Scots
…and 293 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
- 785
- x-height
- 50% of the em
- Capital height
- 65% of the em
- Version
- 0.600
- 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 - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Stylistic sets (12)
- Character variants (5)
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
- github.com/RandomMaerks/Overused-Grotesk
- Designer’s page
- randommaerks.github.io
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Overused Grotesk font free to use?
Yes. Overused Grotesk is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Overused Grotesk support Cyrillic?
Yes, Overused Grotesk includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Overused Grotesk support?
Overused Grotesk covers 401 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 Overused Grotesk a variable font?
Yes. Overused Grotesk 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 Overused Grotesk?
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 Overused Grotesk?
Overused Grotesk was created by RandomMaerks.
What is Overused Grotesk good for?
Judging by its design, Overused Grotesk suits: interfaces, headings, body text, magazines and editorial.
Pairs well with Overused Grotesk
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- The body font is made for reading
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