Mako

Try Mako

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mako Regular

About Mako

Mako is a sans serif typeface that Vernon Adams designed for browsers on desktops, laptops and phones. The official description calls it minimal, and the specimen bears that out: strokes are nearly uniform, terminals are cut flat, and the round letters are slightly squared and narrow, which packs words closely without crowding them. The lowercase is tall, the a and g keep simple, open shapes, and the numerals match the capitals in height. The family has one Regular style, with no bold or italic, and is not a variable font. Its 401 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including the letters for Turkish, Polish and Romanian, and an update in July 2023 enlarged the glyph set. The copyright notice names The Mako Project Authors, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mako works

Navigation and menus

Narrow, squared letters fit several menu items into a header bar on small screens.

Mobile interface text

Mako was drawn for browsers on phones as well as desktops, with a tall lowercase and flat terminals.

Compact headings

The slightly condensed width keeps a heading on one line where a wider sans would wrap.

Buttons and form labels

Uniform strokes and simple shapes read cleanly in one- or two-word labels.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Mako

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 Mako 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: "Mako";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mako-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Mako 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=Mako&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight

Mako has only Regular 400; a browser will fake bold unless another family supplies it.

No italic

There is no italic file, so slanted text is synthesised.

Latin scripts only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Mako

• Minimalist sans-serif fonts

  Quiet, low-contrast sans-serif families with plain shapes and open spacing, for portfolios, product pages and calm editorial layouts.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts