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Molengo

A humanist sans serif in one weight, made for documents, with old-style figures and mark positioning.

Sans Serif 1 style by Denis Jacquerye OFL

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Molengo is a humanist sans serif typeface by Denis Jacquerye, made for setting documents in Latin-script languages. Molengo has a single Regular style with 372 glyphs and includes positioning for combining accent marks. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits short documents, captions and plain headings where one weight is enough.

Molengo font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Denis Jacquerye
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
372
Languages checked
12 see the list
Last updated
version 0.11; ttfautohint (v0.8) -G 32 -r 16 -x
Used for
EditorialMinimalist

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

Try Molengo

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Molengo Regular

About Molengo

Molengo is a sans serif typeface designed for documents. Its letters follow handwriting proportions instead of a rigid geometric scheme: in the specimen the strokes swell and thin slightly, the a and g are two-storey forms, the Q has a short curved tail and the numerals are old-style figures with ascenders and descenders. The official notes describe the face as multilingual and point to its placement of non-spacing marks, a feature that some minority languages need in order to stack accents on letters. The family has one Regular style with 372 glyphs and is not a variable font. The same notes say it was produced with FontForge and hinted with Xgridfit. Denis Jacquerye is the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Molengo works

Letters and reports
Molengo was made for documents, and its open humanist shapes read plainly in a short page of text.
Text with stacked accents
Positioning for non-spacing marks lets a combining accent be placed on a base letter where no precomposed character exists.
Captions and labels
Old-style figures sit at lowercase height, so numbers in a caption do not shout.
Understated headings
The lightly modulated strokes give a heading a quiet, written quality at larger sizes.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 372 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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 (c) 2007, Denis Jacquerye (moyogo@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name Molengo, Moléngo.

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 Molengo

Alegreya Serif

Molengo is sans serif and Alegreya is serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arbutus Slab Slab Serif

Molengo is sans serif and Arbutus Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono Monospace

Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono is a monospace family (7 weights) for code and figures next to Molengo 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 Molengo 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: "Molengo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Molengo-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One weight only
There is no bold and no italic, so emphasis and hierarchy need size, colour or a second family.
Old-style figures
The numerals in the specimen vary in height. That suits prose more than tables of aligned numbers.
Precomposed coverage is Western European
The complete language sets are Western European ones; French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

FAQs

Is Molengo free for commercial use?

Yes. Molengo is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so it can be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and a modified version keeps the same license and may not use a Reserved Font Name without permission.

Who designed Molengo?

Molengo was designed by Denis Jacquerye, who is named in the copyright notice; the font's name table signs the design as moyogo.

How many weights does Molengo have?

Molengo has one weight, Regular 400, with no bold or italic. It is not a variable font.

Which languages does Molengo support?

Molengo includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages including Icelandic. French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

Does Molengo have lining figures?

The specimen shows Molengo with old-style figures as the default, with digits that rise and fall like lowercase letters.

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