Oxygen

Try Oxygen

Weights and styles

• Light 300Oxygen Light
• Regular 400Oxygen Regular
• Bold 700Oxygen Bold

About Oxygen

Oxygen is a sans serif family drawn for a desktop environment. It was created within the KDE Project, and the official notes say the design is optimised for the FreeType rendering system and intended to work across graphical interfaces, desktops and devices. The specimen shows wide, open letters with a tall lowercase, little stroke contrast and a single-storey g. This package is the web font version of the family. It has three static fonts, Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, and no italic or variable file. Each font contains 425 glyphs with Latin and Latin Extended subsets. Vernon Adams designed Oxygen and holds the copyright, with Oxygen as a reserved font name. The family was added to Google Fonts in 2012.

Where Oxygen works

Desktop and web application UI

The family was drawn for a desktop environment, with wide, open letters for menus, dialogs and toolbars.

Pages viewed on Linux

The outlines were optimised for FreeType, the renderer used on Linux desktops.

Lightweight sites

Three small static files cover text, light headings and bold emphasis without a large download.

Dashboards and admin panels

Light for large figures, Regular for labels and Bold for totals give a simple three-step hierarchy.

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

Fonts that pair with Oxygen

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 Oxygen 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: "Oxygen";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Oxygen-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Oxygen";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Oxygen-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Oxygen";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Oxygen-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Oxygen 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=Oxygen:wght@300;400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Oxygen ships upright fonts only.

Three static weights

There is nothing between Regular and Bold, and no variable font.

Latin only

The 425 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended; Cyrillic and Greek are absent.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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