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Onest

A grotesque between geometric and humanist, variable from Thin to Black, with Latin and Cyrillic for apps and sites.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev OFL

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Onest is a sans serif typeface by Dmitri Voloshin and Andrey Kudryavtsev, designed as a hybrid of geometric and humanist grotesques for reading on screens. Onest is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and nine named weights, without italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits apps and sites.

Onest font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
852
Languages checked
28 see the list
Last updated
version 2.001
Used for
Body textInterfacesBrandingTech

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

Try Onest

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Onest Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Onest ExtraLight
  • Light 300Onest Light
  • Regular 400Onest Regular
  • Medium 500Onest Medium
  • SemiBold 600Onest SemiBold
  • Bold 700Onest Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Onest ExtraBold
  • Black 900Onest Black

Onest is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Onest

Onest is a sans serif family that mixes the round, constructed shapes of a geometric grotesque with the more open forms of a humanist one. In the specimen the O is nearly circular, the lowercase is tall and wide, and stroke endings are cut horizontally. The official notes recommend it for apps and websites and for long texts on any device, and say the letters remain distinguishable at small sizes for interface elements and navigation. They also mention alternate characters with closed and semi-closed apertures and careful drawing of diacritics such as the cedilla and ogonek. Onest is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 100 to 900, and nine named weights; it has no italic. The file holds 852 glyphs with Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets. Onest was added to Google Fonts in 2023.

Where Onest works

Navigation and interface elements
The official notes point to small-size legibility, and nine weights give labels, tabs and buttons a clear hierarchy.
Long text in apps
A tall, wide lowercase and open shapes were intended for extended reading on screens.
Bilingual Latin and Cyrillic products
Both scripts sit in one variable file, which suits services published in English and Russian or Ukrainian.
Brand typography with alternates
Alternate characters with different apertures let a wordmark or headline shift tone while staying in the family.
Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian text
Diacritics such as the ogonek and cedilla received specific attention in the design.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 852 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2021 The Onest Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/onest)

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 Onest

Andada Pro Serif

Onest is sans serif and Andada Pro is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arvo Slab Serif

Onest is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Fira Code Monospace

Fira Code is a monospace family (5 weights) for code and figures next to Onest 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 Onest 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: "Onest";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Onest-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
Onest has upright styles only; emphasis in running text relies on weight.
Weight is the only axis
The variable file covers 100 to 900 and has no width or optical size axis.
No Greek
Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese are covered; Greek is not.

FAQs

Is Onest free for commercial use?

Yes. Onest is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Onest?

Onest was designed by Dmitri Voloshin and Andrey Kudryavtsev. The copyright notice names The Onest Project Authors.

How many weights does Onest have?

Onest has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900. There are no italics.

Is Onest a variable font?

Yes. Onest is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900.

Does Onest support Cyrillic?

Yes. Onest has Cyrillic and Cyrillic Extended subsets and includes the letters needed for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian, alongside Latin-script languages and Vietnamese.

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