- Heading
- League Spartan
- Body text
- Podkova
- 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 heading font is made for headings
Podkova
About the font
Podkova is a free font by Cyreal, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 485 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 43% of the em and the capital height is 59%.
Podkova is a serif font by Cyreal in the serif category. It supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts, and its Kazakh support includes the extra Cyrillic letters the language needs. The family has 5 styles with weights from 400 to 800 and is a variable font. It contains 962 glyphs and is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license.
Author
Cyreal
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
962
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- calm
- Design
- slab serif
- monoline
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Podkova has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 485 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
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
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- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- 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
- Sicilian
- 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
…and 374 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 — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 890
- x-height
- 43% of the em
- Capital height
- 59% of the em
- Version
- 2.103
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - 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/Podkova
- Designer’s page
- cyreal.org
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Podkova font free to use?
Yes. Podkova is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Podkova support Cyrillic?
Yes, Podkova includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Podkova support?
Podkova covers 485 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 Podkova a variable font?
Yes. Podkova 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 Podkova?
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 Podkova?
Podkova was created by Cyreal.
What is Podkova good for?
Judging by its design, Podkova suits: body text, headings, magazines and editorial.
Pairs well with Podkova
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- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
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