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Lexend Deca

One of seven Lexend families made to improve reading proficiency: a variable sans from Thin 100 to Black 900.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco and others OFL

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Lexend Deca is a sans serif from the Lexend collection, seven families intended to improve reading proficiency, credited to Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin and others. Lexend Deca is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and no italic. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits reading text and interfaces.

Lexend Deca font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez, Superunion
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
845
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.007
Used for
Body textInterfaces

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

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Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Lexend Deca Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Lexend Deca ExtraLight
  • Light 300Lexend Deca Light
  • Regular 400Lexend Deca Regular
  • Medium 500Lexend Deca Medium
  • SemiBold 600Lexend Deca SemiBold
  • Bold 700Lexend Deca Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Lexend Deca ExtraBold
  • Black 900Lexend Deca Black

Lexend Deca 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 Lexend Deca

Lexend Deca is a sans serif typeface that belongs to Lexend, a collection of seven font families developed with the aim of improving reading proficiency. The official notes compare the idea to prescription glasses: the families apply what the project calls the Shaver-Troup Formulations. In the specimen the letters are wide and round with generous space between them, the lowercase a is single-storey, and the capital I carries serifs that separate it from the lowercase l. Lexend Deca is a single variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900, nine weights from Thin to Black; the upgrade to variable fonts was made in June 2021 with the help of Font Bureau. No italic exists. The font holds 845 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion are credited as designers.

Where Lexend Deca works

Reading apps and e-learning
The family was developed with reading proficiency as its stated aim, which fits lesson text and study material.
Interface text
Wide, open letters and a serifed capital I keep labels and messages distinct at small sizes.
Worksheets and school documents
Generous letter spacing and simple shapes suit printed material for learners.
Headings in the same family
SemiBold to Black give headings without a second typeface, since all nine weights are in one file.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 845 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

Character sets found in the files: 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 2018 The Lexend Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/lexend), with Reserved Font Name “RevReading Lexend”.

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 Lexend Deca

Lexend Giga Sans Serif

Lexend Giga comes from the same collection with much wider letters and spacing, so it can set short headings above Lexend Deca text.

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 Lexend Deca 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: "Lexend Deca";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LexendDeca-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
Lexend Deca has upright styles only; emphasis has to come from weight.
Currently the same design as Lexend
According to the notes for the Lexend family, Lexend and Lexend Deca have been the same since the update of July 2021.
The font name is reserved
The license notice reserves the name “RevReading Lexend”.

FAQs

Is Lexend Deca free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Lexend Deca 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 “RevReading Lexend” without permission.

Who designed Lexend Deca?

Lexend Deca is credited to Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion. The copyright notice names The Lexend Project Authors.

How many weights does Lexend Deca have?

Lexend Deca has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, and no italic.

Is Lexend Deca a variable font?

Yes. Lexend Deca is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900.

What is Lexend Deca designed for?

Lexend Deca is part of the Lexend collection, whose families were developed with the intention of improving reading proficiency.

Which languages does Lexend Deca support?

Lexend Deca includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

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