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- Tinos
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- A shared mood: calm, serious
Tinos
About the font
Tinos is a free font by Steve Matteson, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 971 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 46% of the em and the capital height is 66%.
Tinos is a serif font designed by Steve Matteson that is metrically compatible with Times New Roman. It contains 3285 glyphs in 4 styles with weights of 400 and 700, and supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh. The font is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license.
Author
Steve Matteson
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
3285
Character and uses
- Mood
- serious
- calm
- Design
- humanist
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Tinos has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 971 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
- Hebrew
- 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
…and 860 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
- 3011
- x-height
- 46% of the em
- Capital height
- 66% of the em
- Version
- 1.340; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.16-eb64)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Kerning
kern
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/Tinos
- Designer’s page
- monotype.com/studio
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Tinos font free to use?
Yes. Tinos is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Tinos support Cyrillic?
Yes, Tinos includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Tinos support?
Tinos covers 971 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 Tinos?
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 Tinos?
Tinos was created by Steve Matteson.
What is Tinos good for?
Judging by its design, Tinos suits: body text, magazines and editorial, headings.
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