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Federo

A high-contrast sans serif in one style, reworking a 1909 Jakob Erbar design for screen display sizes.

Sans Serif 1 style by Cyreal OFL

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Federo is a sans serif display typeface from Cyreal, drawn by Olexa Volochay as a web adaptation of a 1909 design by Jakob Erbar. Federo has thick and thin strokes without serifs and comes in one Regular style with 217 glyphs. Federo is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headings and titles.

Federo font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Cyreal
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
217
Languages checked
13 see the list
Last updated
version 1.000
Used for
HeadlinesBrandingEditorialElegant

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 Federo; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Federo Regular

About Federo

Federo is a sans serif with clear stroke contrast: verticals are full weight while horizontals and joins thin out, as in a serif face with the serifs removed. In the specimen the capital A has a pointed apex that overhangs to the left, the bowls of O and Q are wide and almost circular, f drops below the baseline and the lowercase g ends in an open hook. The official description says the design refers to a sans serif that Jakob Erbar made in 1909 and that the aim was to stay close to it while adapting it for the web: contrast was reduced slightly, counters were enlarged and the figures were given regular proportions. The family is one Regular style with 217 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. It is credited to Cyreal, with Olexa Volochay named as designer.

Where Federo works

Editorial headings
Thick-thin contrast gives section titles the tone of a serif while keeping the outline of a sans.
Fashion, beauty and hotel branding
Wide round capitals and the pointed A set a spaced-out name in a few large letters.
Menus and invitations
Course names or event titles set in Federo contrast with a plainer text face for descriptions.
Web page titles
The adaptation enlarged the counters and evened the contrast specifically for display on screens.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 217 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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 (c) 2011, Cyreal (www.cyreal.org), with Reserved Font Name "Federo".

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 Federo

Mirza Serif

Federo is sans serif and Mirza is serif (4 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arbutus Slab Slab Serif

Federo is sans serif and Arbutus Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Azeret Mono Monospace

Azeret Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Federo as the text face.

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

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style only
Federo has Regular 400 and nothing else: no bold, no italic, no variable axis.
Described as a display font
It is classified as sans serif, but the official description presents it as a display webfont; thin joins fade at small text sizes.
Basic Latin subset
The 217 glyphs cover Western European languages; French is complete except for the rare capital Ÿ.

FAQs

Is Federo free for commercial use?

Yes. Federo 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 and may not use the Reserved Font Name "Federo" without permission.

Who designed Federo?

Federo is credited to Cyreal. The font file and the official description name Olexa Volochay as the designer, and the description dates the work to 2011.

What is Federo based on?

Federo refers to a sans serif created by Jakob Erbar in 1909. The digital version keeps close to that design, with slightly lower contrast and larger counters for screen use.

How many weights does Federo have?

Federo has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic. Federo is not a variable font.

Which languages does Federo support?

Federo includes the letters needed for English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan and the Nordic languages, and for French apart from the rare capital Ÿ.

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