- Heading
- Tuffy
- Body text
- Gentium Plus
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Tuffy
About the font
Tuffy is a free font by Thatcher Ulrich, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 430 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 24% of the em and the capital height is 34%.
Tuffy is a sans-serif font with 1502 glyphs across 4 styles, with weights ranging from 400 to 700. It supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts, including the extra letters needed for Kazakh. The font was created by Thatcher Ulrich and is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Thatcher Ulrich
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1502
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- friendly
- Design
- monoline
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Tuffy has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 430 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
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
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- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- 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
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- 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
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
…and 320 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 — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not 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
- 1501
- x-height
- 24% of the em
- Capital height
- 34% of the em
- Version
- 1.272; ttfautohint (v1.6)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed, documents stay editable
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 - Fractions
frac - Superscript
sups - 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.
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/Tuffy
- Designer’s page
- tulrich.co
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Tuffy font free to use?
Yes. Tuffy is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Tuffy support Cyrillic?
Yes, Tuffy includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Tuffy support?
Tuffy covers 430 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 Tuffy?
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 Tuffy?
Tuffy was created by Thatcher Ulrich.
What is Tuffy good for?
Judging by its design, Tuffy suits: interfaces, body text, headings.
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