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Jura

A light, square-shouldered sans that grew out of a Kayah Li alphabet, variable from Light to Bold.

Sans Serif 5 styles · variable by Daniel Johnson, Cyreal OFL

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Jura is a sans serif family by Daniel Johnson with rounded-square letterforms that grew out of glyphs he drew for the Kayah Li script. Jura is a variable font with a weight axis from Light 300 to Bold 700, has 1,108 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Kayah Li, and is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Jura font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Daniel Johnson, Cyreal
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
5 5 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–700
Glyphs
1,108
Languages checked
29 see the list
Last updated
version 5.106
Used for
HeadlinesInterfacesGeometricTech

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

Try Jura

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

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

Jura 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 Jura

Jura is a sans serif whose curves are flattened into rounded rectangles, drawn with a thin, even line. Its designer, Daniel Johnson, writes that the idea came while he was drawing a Kayah Li range for the FreeFont project: the Latin alphabet reuses the strokes and curves of those glyphs. Cyrillic and Greek were added later, and the original Kayah Li glyphs remain in the font, though mainstream Burmese was never part of it. In the specimen the letters are wide and openly spaced, stroke ends are rounded, and the zero carries a centre dot. Jura is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and five named weights, without italics, and holds 1,108 glyphs. The name table also credits Alexei Vanyashin and Mirko Velimirovic, and the catalogue lists Cyreal alongside Johnson.

Where Jura works

Science-fiction and technology titles
Rounded-square bowls and a thin, even line give headings an engineered look suited to games, gadgets and space themes.
Instrument panels and HUD-style interfaces
A dotted zero and wide, open letters keep readouts and short labels distinct on dark screens.
Light display text
Light 300 at large sizes draws a fine outline-like word, and the axis can be raised to Bold 700 where more presence is needed.
Headings in Greek and Cyrillic
Both scripts follow the same squared construction as the Latin, so a multilingual product keeps one look.
Kayah Li text
The Kayah Li glyphs from which the design began are still in the font, a script few families include.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,108 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
  • Vietnamese
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian
  • Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, greek, greek-ext, kayah-li, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 2019 The Jura Project Authors (https://github.com/ossobuffo/jura)

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 Jura

Alice Serif

Jura is sans serif and Alice is serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arvo Slab Serif

Jura is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Courier Prime Monospace

Courier Prime is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Jura 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 Jura 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: "Jura";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Jura-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Default weight is Light
The weight axis runs from 300 to 700 with 300 as its default, so the family looks thin unless a heavier weight is chosen.
No italics
Jura has five upright named weights and no italic. The download is a single variable file.
A name shared with another typeface
The official notes mention that Jura shares its name with an unrelated serif typeface by another designer.

FAQs

Is Jura free for commercial use?

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

Who designed Jura?

Jura was designed by Daniel Johnson. The catalogue also lists Cyreal, and the name table inside Jura credits Alexei Vanyashin and Mirko Velimirovic as well.

How many weights does Jura have?

Jura has five named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. As a variable font, Jura can also be set at any value between 300 and 700.

Is Jura a variable font?

Yes. Jura is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700. It has no italic and no width axis.

Which languages does Jura support?

Jura includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, plus Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek. It also contains the Kayah Li script.

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