# Molengo font

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

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.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Denis Jacquerye
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 372
- Character sets: latin
- Last updated: 2025-09-16
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Molengo
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/molengo
- Tagged for: Editorial, Minimalist

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2007, Denis Jacquerye (moyogo@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name Molengo, Moléngo.

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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.

---

Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/molengo (trendhub)