Fredoka

Try Fredoka

Weights and styles

• Light 300Fredoka Light
• Regular 400Fredoka Regular
• Medium 500Fredoka Medium
• SemiBold 600Fredoka SemiBold
• Bold 700Fredoka Bold

Fredoka 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 Fredoka

Fredoka is a rounded sans serif built from near-circular bowls and strokes that end in full round caps. The specimen shows a single-storey a and g, a Q whose tail crosses the bowl, and an even stroke with almost no contrast; in Bold the counters shrink and the letters become compact and chunky. The family is one variable file with two axes: weight, from Light 300 to Bold 700, and width, from 75 to 125 with 100 as the default, so a line can be narrowed or widened without changing typeface. There are five named weights and no italic. The 327 glyphs cover Latin and Hebrew. Milena Brandão drew the original Latin and Ben Nathan, who leads the project from Israel, added the Hebrew later. Fredoka is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Fredoka works

Children's books and learning apps

Round stroke ends and single-storey a and g give titles and short instructions a soft, simple letter shape.

Hebrew and English titles

Latin and Hebrew alphabets share one file, so a bilingual heading keeps the same rounded stroke in both scripts.

Headlines that must fit a column

The width axis runs from 75 to 125: narrow a long headline or widen a short one without switching family.

Buttons, stickers and badges

In SemiBold and Bold the letters turn chunky and stay readable as short labels on coloured shapes.

Toy and snack packaging

Near-circular bowls and the lack of sharp corners match playful product names set large.

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
• Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: hebrew, latin. 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 Fredoka

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 Fredoka 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: "Fredoka";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Fredoka-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Fredoka 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=Fredoka:wght@300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Fredoka has five upright weights and no italic or slanted style.

One file, two axes

The download is a single variable font with weight (300 to 700) and width (75 to 125) axes.

Latin coverage is mostly Western European

The languages with a complete letter set are Western European ones plus Estonian; Turkish, Polish and Czech are not on that list.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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