- Heading
- Poiret One
- Body text
- Alegreya
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: elegant
- The body font is made for reading
Poiret One
About the font
Poiret One is a free font by Denis Masharov, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 458 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 45% of the em and the capital height is 75%.
Poiret One is a display font available in one style at weight 400, and it is not a variable font. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh characters and contains 850 glyphs. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1). It was designed by Denis Masharov and is based on geometric forms.
Author
Denis Masharov
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
850
Character and uses
- Mood
- elegant
- futuristic
- Design
- geometric
- monoline
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Poiret One has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 458 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
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
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- Nyanja
- 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
- Uzbek
- 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
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
…and 348 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
- 759
- x-height
- 45% of the em
- Capital height
- 75% of the em
- Version
- 1.101
- 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 - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (1)
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/Poiret+One
- Designer’s page
- behance.net/Denis_Masharov
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Poiret One font free to use?
Yes. Poiret One is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Poiret One support Cyrillic?
Yes, Poiret One includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Poiret One support?
Poiret One covers 458 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 Poiret One?
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 Poiret One?
Poiret One was created by Denis Masharov.
What is Poiret One good for?
Judging by its design, Poiret One suits: headings, posters, logos, magazines and editorial.
Pairs well with Poiret One
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