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Comme

A variable sans serif forked from Oxygen, running from Thin 100 to Black 900 in upright styles only.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Vernon Adams OFL

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Comme is a sans serif family credited to Vernon Adams and forked from the Oxygen family with wider language support. Comme is a variable font whose weight axis runs from Thin 100 to Black 900, giving nine upright styles and no italics. Comme is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interfaces and running text.

Comme font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Vernon Adams
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
514
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.000;gftools[0.9.27]
Used for
Body textInterfacesBranding

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Comme; the download contains the complete files.

Comme font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Comme specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Comme Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Comme ExtraLight
  • Light 300Comme Light
  • Regular 400Comme Regular
  • Medium 500Comme Medium
  • SemiBold 600Comme SemiBold
  • Bold 700Comme Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Comme ExtraBold
  • Black 900Comme Black

Comme is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Comme

Comme is a sans serif family built as a fork of Oxygen, with two stated changes: improved language support and a variable weight axis. In the specimen the strokes stay almost even in thickness, the round letters o, c and e are slightly squared at the shoulders, and the openings of a, e and s are wide, which keeps the shapes apart at small sizes. The lowercase a is double-storey and the g is single-storey. One variable file holds nine named weights from Thin 100 to Black 900; there is no italic. Its 514 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended sets, with the letters needed for languages such as Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian. Vernon Adams is credited as the designer, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Comme works

Interface text
Wide openings in a, e and s and near-even strokes keep labels, menus and form fields readable at small sizes.
Weight-based hierarchy
The 100 to 900 axis lets a single file supply hairline display lines, regular copy and Black headings without a second family.
Sites already set in Oxygen
As a fork of Oxygen with a weight axis, Comme adds the thin and heavy ends to a design that started with that family.
Central European language versions
Latin Extended coverage includes the letters for Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian, so one file serves several locales.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 514 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2014 The Comme Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/comme)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Comme

Oxygen Sans Serif

Comme is a fork of Oxygen, so the two share their letter shapes; Comme adds the variable weight range from 100 to 900.

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 Comme 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Comme";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Comme-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Comme", sans-serif;
}

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
All nine styles are upright. Emphasis has to come from a heavier weight; a browser would only slant the letters artificially.
One variable file
The download is a single variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900. Static files for individual weights are not part of this package.
Latin scripts only
The character sets are Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Is Comme free for commercial use?

Yes. Comme is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Comme?

Comme is credited to Vernon Adams. The copyright notice in the license names The Comme Project Authors, and the official description calls the family a fork of Oxygen.

How many weights does Comme have?

Comme has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, all upright. Any value in between can be set on the weight axis.

Is Comme a variable font?

Yes. Comme is a variable font; its only axis is weight, running from 100 to 900.

Does Comme have an italic?

No. Comme has nine upright styles and no italic companion.

Which languages does Comme support?

Comme includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian. It has no Cyrillic or Greek.

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