Gemunu Libre

Try Gemunu Libre

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Gemunu Libre ExtraLight
• Light 300Gemunu Libre Light
• Regular 400Gemunu Libre Regular
• Medium 500Gemunu Libre Medium
• SemiBold 600Gemunu Libre SemiBold
• Bold 700Gemunu Libre Bold
• ExtraBold 800Gemunu Libre ExtraBold

Gemunu Libre 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 Gemunu Libre

Gemunu Libre is a narrow sans serif family in which curves end in soft squared corners. Its official description presents it as the Unicode version of an older Sinhala typeface, FM Gemunu, redrawn for the web and for screens with larger counters and more room around the letters. Every weight carries the Sinhala script together with Latin letters of the same build. In the specimen the Latin capitals are tall and tight, vertical strokes dominate, and W is made of upright stems joined at the foot. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 800 and seven named weights; there is no italic. It contains 894 glyphs. Mooniak leads the project with Pushpananda Ekanayake, the Latin is credited to Sol Matas, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Gemunu Libre works

Sinhala and English interfaces

Both scripts live in one file with a shared construction, so a bilingual menu or form keeps one texture.

Headlines in narrow columns

Tight letter widths fit a long headline on a phone screen or a single newspaper column.

Signs and labels

SemiBold and Bold give the upright, squared letters enough weight for wayfinding panels and product labels.

Charts and data labels

Narrow figures and ExtraLight to Regular weights squeeze axis labels and table headers into little space.

Event posters

ExtraBold 800 turns a few words into a dense block, with Light 300 for the supporting line.

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

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, sinhala. 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 Gemunu Libre

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 Gemunu Libre 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: "Gemunu Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/GemunuLibre-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Gemunu Libre 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=Gemunu+Libre:wght@200..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

All seven styles are upright. Emphasis comes from a change of weight.

One variable file

The download is a single variable font covering 200 to 800; the axis default is 200, so set the weight you need.

Sinhala and Latin only

The character sets are Sinhala, Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not part of the font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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