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Lora

A contemporary text serif with calligraphic roots: brushed curves set against firm serifs, in four weights.

Serif 8 styles · variable by Cyreal OFL

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Lora is a contemporary serif from Cyreal, designed by Olga Karpushina with Cyrillic by Alexei Vanyashin. Lora is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700, four named weights and italics, eight styles in all. It covers Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese, is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is intended for body text.

Lora font preview card
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Designer
Cyreal
Classification
Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 4 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 400–700
Glyphs
889
Languages checked
28 see the list
Last updated
version 3.008
Used for
Body textEditorialElegant

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

Try Lora

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Lora Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Lora Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Lora SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Lora Bold Bold Italic

Lora is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Lora

Lora is a contemporary serif typeface with roots in calligraphy, made as a text face of moderate contrast. Its official description points to the tension between brushed curves and firm serifs, and the specimen bears that out: the bowls swell and taper as if drawn with a brush, the serifs are flat and decisive, and the tail of the Q runs out along the baseline. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700, named Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, each with an italic: eight styles. Its 889 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Olga Karpushina is named as designer and Alexei Vanyashin for the Cyrillic; Cyreal is the foundry. The notes say Lora is optimised for screens and works in print, and that it became a variable family in March 2019.

Where Lora works

Stories and essays online
Moderate contrast and screen optimisation suit long paragraphs, and the brushed curves keep the page from looking dry.
Art and culture publications
The calligraphic italics give titles of works and quotations a hand-drawn accent within the text.
Print booklets and reports
The notes state that the design performs in print as on screen, so one family can serve a site and its printed edition.
Bilingual Latin and Cyrillic text
Cyrillic by Alexei Vanyashin sits in the same fonts, so Russian or Ukrainian passages match the Latin.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 889 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

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 2011 The Lora Project Authors (https://github.com/cyrealtype/Lora-Cyrillic), with Reserved Font Name "Lora".

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 Lora

Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif

Lora is serif and Montserrat Alternates is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

DM Mono Monospace

DM Mono is a monospace family (3 weights) for code and figures next to Lora as the text face.

ABeeZee Sans Serif

Lora is serif and ABeeZee is sans serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from 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 Lora 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: "Lora";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lora-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lora";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lora-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Lora", serif;
}

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No weights below Regular
The axis covers 400 to 700 only. Lora has no light cut and no black.
No Greek
Greek is not among the character sets.

FAQs

Is Lora free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Lora may be used in personal and commercial projects, changed and passed on, but it cannot be sold by itself, and a modified version keeps the same license and may not use the reserved name "Lora" without permission.

Who designed Lora?

Lora was designed by Olga Karpushina, with the Cyrillic by Alexei Vanyashin, and is published by the foundry Cyreal.

How many weights does Lora have?

Lora has four weights, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic.

Is Lora a variable font?

Yes. Lora is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700; its notes date the variable version to March 2019.

Which languages does Lora support?

Lora includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, and for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

Is Lora good for body text?

Yes. Lora is described by its makers as a text typeface of moderate contrast suited to body text and optimised for screens.

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