- Heading
- Recursive
- 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: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Recursive
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Recursive is a free font by Arrow Type, Stephen Nixon, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 419 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
Recursive is a sans-serif font with 1304 glyphs across 64 styles with weights from 300 to 1000. It is a variable font and supports the Latin script. The font was designed by Arrow Type and Stephen Nixon and is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license. Its stated purpose is digital interfaces and code, including data-rich user interfaces, technical documentation and code editors.
Author
Arrow Type, Stephen Nixon
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
1304
Character and uses
- Mood
- technical
- friendly
- Design
- monoline
- humanist
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Recursive has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 419 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Igbo
- Uzbek
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
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- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Sicilian
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
…and 311 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) — Not 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
- 745
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 1.085
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (13)
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
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Recursive
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Recursive font free to use?
Yes. Recursive is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Recursive support Cyrillic?
No, Recursive supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Recursive support?
Recursive covers 419 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 Recursive a variable font?
Yes. Recursive 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 Recursive?
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 Recursive?
Recursive was created by Arrow Type, Stephen Nixon.
What is Recursive good for?
Judging by its design, Recursive suits: interfaces, body text, code, headings.
Pairs well with Recursive
More pairs and your own text- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
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- A shared mood: friendly
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