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Lexend Mega

A very widely spaced member of the Lexend series: a variable sans with nine weights from Thin to Black.

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

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Lexend Mega is a sans serif family from the Lexend project, credited to Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion. Lexend Mega is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and no italics. Lexend Mega is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits wide headings and wordmarks.

Lexend Mega 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
HeadlinesBrandingBoldGeometric

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

Try Lexend Mega

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

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

Lexend Mega 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 Mega

Lexend Mega is a sans serif family with wide, round letters set at very generous spacing. It belongs to Lexend, a collection of seven families that, according to the project, were developed to improve reading proficiency. In the specimen the o is close to a circle, the a and g are single-storey, strokes keep an even thickness, and the gaps between letters are almost as wide as the letters themselves, so a word occupies a long line. The family is a variable font whose weight axis runs from 100 to 900, with nine named weights from Thin to Black and no italics, supplied as one variable file. It contains 845 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and the notice reserves the font name RevReading Lexend.

Where Lexend Mega works

Wide-set headings
Letters arrive already spaced far apart, so a short heading stretches across a column without manual tracking.
Wordmarks and brand lines
Round bowls and nine weights give a spaced-out brand name a geometric, even rhythm from Thin to Black.
Labels and eyebrow text
Two or three words in Medium or SemiBold above a title use the built-in spacing as a design feature.
Titles in Vietnamese and other languages
The 845 glyphs include Vietnamese and Latin Extended, so accented titles keep the same wide rhythm.

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 Mega

Alegreya SC Serif

Lexend Mega is sans serif and Alegreya SC is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

BioRhyme Slab Serif

Lexend Mega is sans serif and BioRhyme is slab serif (7 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

B612 Mono Monospace

B612 Mono is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Lexend Mega 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 Lexend Mega 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 Mega";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LexendMega-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Takes a lot of horizontal space
Wide letters and wide gaps mean far fewer characters fit on a line than in a normally spaced sans; long paragraphs become very long.
No italics
The family has upright styles only, nine in all.
One variable file
The package holds a single variable font covering weights 100 to 900. Static files per weight are available from the official source.

FAQs

Is Lexend Mega free for commercial use?

Lexend Mega can be used in commercial projects under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits modifying and redistributing the fonts, but they cannot be sold on their own, and derivatives keep the same license and may not use the Reserved Font Name without permission. Check the license text for the exact terms.

Who designed Lexend Mega?

Lexend Mega is credited to Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion. The name table inside the font lists Bonnie Shaver-Troup and Thomas Jockin.

How many weights does Lexend Mega have?

Lexend Mega has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, and no italics. As a variable font it can also be set at any weight in between.

Is Lexend Mega a variable font?

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

Which languages does Lexend Mega support?

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

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