- Heading
- UnifrakturCook
- Body text
- Alice
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- A shared mood: vintage
UnifrakturCook
About the font
UnifrakturCook is a free font by j. 'mach' wust, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 271 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 16% of the em and the capital height is 24%.
UnifrakturCook is a display font in blackletter style with a single bold style at weight 700, containing 271 glyphs and supporting the Latin script. It is based on Peter Wiegel's Koch fette deutsche Schrift, which itself derives from a 1910 typeface by Rudolf Koch, and it is a static font rather than a variable one. The font includes ligatures for sequences such as ch, ck, st and tz. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
j. 'mach' wust
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
271
Character and uses
- Mood
- bold
- vintage
- rugged
- Design
- blackletter
- high contrast
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
UnifrakturCook has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 271 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Somali
- Zulu
- Swedish
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Congo Swahili
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
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- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Kongo
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Morisyen
- Kʼicheʼ
- Irish
- Lunda
- Basque
- Khasi
- Sardinian
- Bena
- Shambala
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua
- Kuanyama
- South Ndebele
- Estonian
- Tetum
- Western Frisian
- Asu
- Walloon
…and 175 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 — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not 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 — Not included
- Math signs — Not included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 246
- x-height
- 16% of the em
- Capital height
- 24% of the em
- Version
- 2011-09-01
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- 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/UnifrakturCook
- Designer’s page
- unifraktur.sourceforge.net/cook.html
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the UnifrakturCook font free to use?
Yes. UnifrakturCook is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does UnifrakturCook support Cyrillic?
No, UnifrakturCook supports Latin script only.
How many languages does UnifrakturCook support?
UnifrakturCook covers 271 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 UnifrakturCook?
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 UnifrakturCook?
UnifrakturCook was created by j. 'mach' wust.
What is UnifrakturCook good for?
Judging by its design, UnifrakturCook suits: tattoos, headings, posters, logos.
Pairs well with UnifrakturCook
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