# Lato font

> A sans serif by Łukasz Dziedzic with semi-rounded details, in five weights from Thin to Black with italics.

Lato is a sans serif typeface family by the Warsaw-based designer Łukasz Dziedzic, begun in the summer of 2010. Lato has five weights, Thin 100, Light 300, Regular 400, Bold 700 and Black 900, each with an italic, as static fonts. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits body text, interfaces and corporate documents.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Łukasz Dziedzic
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 10 (Thin 100, Light 300, Regular 400, Bold 700, Black 900; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 3023
- Character sets: cyrillic, greek, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-16
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/lato
- Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Branding

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2010-2014 by tyPoland Lukasz Dziedzic (team@latofonts.com) with Reserved Font Name "Lato"

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Lato free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Lato may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed; it cannot be sold on its own, and a modified version keeps the same license. A modified version may not use the Reserved Font Name “Lato” without permission.

### Who designed Lato?

Lato was designed by Łukasz Dziedzic, a designer based in Warsaw. The copyright notice names tyPoland Lukasz Dziedzic.

### How many weights does Lato have?

Lato has five weights, Thin 100, Light 300, Regular 400, Bold 700 and Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 10 styles.

### Is Lato a variable font?

No. Lato is not a variable font; the family is distributed as ten static files.

### What does the name Lato mean?

Lato is the Polish word for summer. Łukasz Dziedzic began the family in the summer of 2010.

### Which languages does Lato support?

The Lato files offered here include the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, the Nordic languages, Catalan, Polish, Estonian, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/lato (trendhub)