Raleway

Try Raleway

Weights and styles

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

Raleway 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 Raleway

Raleway is a sans serif family that the official notes describe as a display face. It started with Matt McInerney's thin design; Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida expanded it into nine weights in 2012, and italics followed in 2016. In the specimen the Thin style shows hairline strokes, a W whose middle strokes cross, and numerals that rise and dip like lowercase letters: old-style figures are what the font shows first, and lining figures are also included. The official notes list standard and discretionary ligatures and a more geometric stylistic alternate set as well. Raleway is variable on one axis, weight, from 100 to 900, with named styles from Thin to Black in roman and italic, 18 styles altogether. Its 1,067 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese sets. Raleway is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Raleway works

Large light headlines

Thin 100 and ExtraLight 200 are hairline weights that need size; the thin drawing was the starting point of the family.

Fashion and lifestyle branding

Wide capitals and the crossed W give a wordmark a recognisable detail, with nine weights for the supporting system.

Magazine-style layouts

Old-style numerals sit level with lowercase text in standfirsts and pull quotes, and italics add emphasis.

Landing page hierarchy

Black 900 for the hero line and Regular or Medium for subheads come from the same variable file.

Russian and Vietnamese headings

Cyrillic and Vietnamese character sets let the same headline style run across language versions.

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 Raleway

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 Raleway 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: "Raleway";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Raleway-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Raleway";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Raleway-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Raleway 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=Raleway:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Numerals are old-style by default

Digits such as 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 drop below the baseline in the specimen. Lining numerals are in the font and can be switched on with OpenType features.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate files, each covering weight 100 to 900.

Described as a display face

The official notes classify Raleway as display type rather than as a face for long small-size text.

FAQs

Collections with Raleway

• Fonts for logos and wordmarks

  Geometric, rounded, wide and classical open-license typefaces with enough character to carry a name on their own.

Similar fonts

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