Average

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Average Regular

About Average

Average is a serif typeface built for running text. According to the official notes, Eduardo Tunni measured the shapes of text families from different eras, classical and contemporary, collected the figures in spreadsheets and derived parameters for proportion, colour and spacing before drawing the letters. The result shown in the specimen is a calm book face: moderate contrast between thick and thin strokes, bracketed serifs, a two-storey g with a compact ear and capitals of even width. The family has one Regular style and no italic or bold. Its 447 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets; the notes record a September 2022 update that enlarged the glyph set. A sans serif sister family, Average Sans, exists as a separate download. The copyright notice names The Average Project Authors, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Average works

Essays and long articles

The letter proportions were derived from measured text typefaces, so Regular sits evenly in paragraphs of a blog post or essay.

Quiet headings above body copy

Moderate contrast and bracketed serifs hold up when the same Regular style is enlarged for a title.

Multilingual European text

Latin Extended coverage supplies the accents needed for Polish, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian and Romanian alongside Western European languages.

Serif and sans systems

Average Sans is a sister family, so captions and navigation can be set in a related sans while Average carries the text.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Average

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Average on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Average";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Average-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Average", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Average with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Average&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style only

Average has Regular 400 and nothing else. Emphasis cannot come from a true italic or bold cut of the same family.

Glyph set was enlarged

The official notes state that a September 2022 update widened the glyph set; the current file holds 447 glyphs.

Latin scripts only

The subsets are Latin and Latin Extended. No Cyrillic or Greek subset is listed.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All serif fonts