Lato

Try Lato

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Lato Thin Thin Italic
• Light 300Lato Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Lato Regular Italic
• Bold 700Lato Bold Bold Italic
• Black 900Lato Black Black Italic

About Lato

Lato is a sans serif typeface family whose name means “summer” in Polish. Łukasz Dziedzic started it in 2010 for a client's corporate identity; when that client chose another direction, the family was released to the public. The design aims to stay unobtrusive in running text while showing more individual shapes at larger sizes: the capitals follow classical proportions, and stroke ends and joins are slightly rounded, which warms an otherwise firm structure. The family has five weights, Thin, Light, Regular, Bold and Black, each with an italic, 10 styles as static files; it is not a variable font. The files in this package hold 3,023 glyphs and identify themselves as version 2.015, so they cover languages such as English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Czech and Hungarian, along with Cyrillic and Greek letters.

Where Lato works

Body text on websites

Lato was drawn to recede in paragraphs, and Regular with Italic and Bold covers ordinary article typography.

Corporate documents and slides

The family began as an identity typeface, and its firm structure suits reports, proposals and presentations.

Interface text

Semi-rounded details keep labels and messages friendly at small sizes without looking informal.

Headlines at the extremes

Thin 100 and Black 900 show the individual letter shapes that stay hidden at text sizes.

Polish-language text

The Polish letters are part of this version of the fonts.

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. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, greek, 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

Fonts that pair with Lato

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 Lato 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: "Lato";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lato-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lato";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lato-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lato";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lato-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lato";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lato-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 6 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Lato 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=Lato:ital,wght@0,100;0,300;0,400;0,700;0,900;1,100;1,300;1,400;1,700;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Five weights with gaps

The weights are 100, 300, 400, 700 and 900. There is no Medium, SemiBold or ExtraBold.

A large character set in this package

These files hold 3,023 glyphs. The letters for Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian and Croatian are complete, and Cyrillic and Greek are included.

The font name is reserved

The license notice reserves the name “Lato”, so a modified version needs a different name.

FAQs

Collections with Lato

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

  Sans-serif families with open, pen-influenced letterforms that stay comfortable in paragraphs, documents and interface text.

Similar fonts

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