- Heading
- UnifrakturMaguntia
- Body text
- Noto Serif
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: serious
- The body font is made for reading
UnifrakturMaguntia
About the font
UnifrakturMaguntia 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 54% of the em and the capital height is 69%.
UnifrakturMaguntia is a display blackletter font by j. 'mach' wust, based on Peter Wiegel's Berthold Mainzer Fraktur, which itself derives from an 1901 typeface. It supports the Latin script, contains 270 glyphs, and comes in a single regular style at weight 400. The font 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
270
Character and uses
- Mood
- vintage
- serious
- Design
- blackletter
- decorative
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
UnifrakturMaguntia 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
- 247
- x-height
- 54% of the em
- Capital height
- 69% of the em
- Version
- 2010-11-24
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga
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/UnifrakturMaguntia
- Designer’s page
- unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the UnifrakturMaguntia font free to use?
Yes. UnifrakturMaguntia is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does UnifrakturMaguntia support Cyrillic?
No, UnifrakturMaguntia supports Latin script only.
How many languages does UnifrakturMaguntia support?
UnifrakturMaguntia 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 UnifrakturMaguntia?
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 UnifrakturMaguntia?
UnifrakturMaguntia was created by j. 'mach' wust.
What is UnifrakturMaguntia good for?
Judging by its design, UnifrakturMaguntia suits: tattoos, headings, posters, invitations.
Pairs well with UnifrakturMaguntia
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