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Mohave

A condensed titling sans with a variable weight axis from 300 to 700, matching italics and a slashed zero.

Sans Serif 10 styles · variable by Gumpita Rahayu OFL

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Mohave is a condensed titling sans serif by Gumpita Rahayu that began as an all-caps display font and grew into a family with italics. Mohave is a variable font with a weight axis from Light 300 to Bold 700, five weights and 10 styles. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headlines, posters and signs.

Mohave font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Gumpita Rahayu
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
10 5 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–700
Glyphs
482
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 2.003
Used for
HeadlinesPostersBoldCondensedSignage

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

Try Mohave

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Light 300Mohave Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Mohave Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Mohave Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Mohave SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Mohave Bold Bold Italic

Mohave 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 Mohave

Mohave is a condensed sans serif made for titles. Its round letters are built with straight sides and tight curves, so O, C and D stand as tall rounded rectangles, and the capitals take up little width. The specimen shows a zero with a diagonal slash, squared brackets and a lowercase drawn with the same narrow, even-stroked construction. According to the official notes, Gumpita Rahayu first drew Mohave as a capitals-only display font, later extended it into a family with matching italics, and Mirko Velimirovic turned it into a variable font. The weight axis runs from 300 to 700 and yields five named weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, each with an italic: 10 styles in all. The fonts hold 482 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. The name table lists Tokotype as manufacturer.

Where Mohave works

Poster titles in capitals
The design started as an all-caps display font, and its narrow straight-sided capitals stack tightly in large lines.
Signs and wayfinding
Condensed letters fit long place names on narrow panels, and Medium to Bold stay solid at a distance.
Sports and event graphics
Italics in all five weights add a sense of motion to scores, names and dates.
Web headlines with fine weight control
The 300 to 700 axis allows any intermediate weight to be set from one file.
Codes, numbers and prices
The slashed zero separates 0 from the capital O in part numbers and price tags.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 482 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2019 The Mohave Project Authors (https://github.com/bghryct/Mohave-Typefaces)

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 Mohave

Alegreya SC Serif

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

BioRhyme Slab Serif

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

Cascadia Code Monospace

Cascadia Code is a monospace family (6 weights) for code and figures next to Mohave 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 Mohave 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: "Mohave";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mohave-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mohave";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mohave-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Two variable files
The download holds one variable file for the upright styles and one for the italics, each spanning 300 to 700.
Default weight is Light
The axis default is 300, so software that ignores the weight setting shows the Light.
Nothing heavier than Bold
The range stops at 700; there is no ExtraBold or Black.
Static files not included
Only the variable fonts are in this package. Static instances are available from the official source.

FAQs

Is Mohave free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Mohave may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and passed on, but the font files cannot be sold on their own and a modified version must keep the same license.

Who designed Mohave?

Mohave was designed by Gumpita Rahayu, with Tokotype named as manufacturer. The official notes credit Mirko Velimirovic with the variable font version.

Is Mohave a variable font?

Yes. Mohave is a variable font with one axis, weight, running from 300 to 700, and is supplied as separate upright and italic files.

How many weights does Mohave have?

Mohave has five weights, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic, making 10 styles.

Does Mohave have lowercase letters?

Yes. Mohave began as an all-caps font, but the current family has a full lowercase, as the specimen shows.

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