Mulish

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Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Mulish ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Mulish Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Mulish Regular Italic
• Medium 500Mulish Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Mulish SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Mulish Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Mulish ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Mulish Black Black Italic
• ExtraBlack 1000Mulish ExtraBlack ExtraBlack Italic

Mulish 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 Mulish

Mulish is a minimalist sans serif typeface meant for display settings and for text alike. Vernon Adams drew it in 2011 and refined it until 2014, adding weights, widening language support and tightening spacing and kerning in response to feedback from users. In 2017 Jacques Le Bailly updated the family to complete that work after Adams's death, and in August 2019 it gained a variable weight axis. The specimen shows plain, open letters with a single-storey a, round bowls, and straight unflared stems. The weight axis runs from 200 to 1000; nine weights are named, ExtraLight to ExtraBlack, each with an italic, for 18 styles. The fonts hold 1,058 glyphs and cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mulish works

Clean interface text

Plain stems and open, round letters keep menus, forms and settings screens uncluttered.

Body text on product sites

The design was intended for text as well as display, with spacing and kerning tightened over several rounds of revision.

Light, airy headings

ExtraLight 200 and Light 300 set large headings as thin lines without switching family.

Extra-heavy emphasis

The axis continues past Black 900 to ExtraBlack 1000, giving a heavier setting for a single word or number.

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

Fonts that pair with Mulish

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 Mulish 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: "Mulish";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mulish-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 1000;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mulish";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mulish-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 1000;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Mulish 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=Mulish:ital,wght@0,200..1000;1,200..1000&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Axis goes to 1000

Nine weights are named, and the heaviest, ExtraBlack, sits at 1000 instead of stopping at Black 900.

Single-storey a

The lowercase a is the round, one-storey form. At small sizes it can be mistaken for an o more easily than a two-storey a.

Default instance is ExtraLight

The variable files open at weight 200, so set the weight explicitly.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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