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Readex Pro

A Latin and Arabic sans expanded from Lexend, variable in weight and in a Hyper Expansion spacing axis.

Sans Serif 6 styles · variable by Thomas Jockin, Nadine Chahine, Bonnie Shaver-Troup and others OFL

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Readex Pro is a sans serif by Thomas Jockin and Nadine Chahine that extends the Lexend fonts to Latin and Arabic. Readex Pro is a variable font with weight (160 to 700) and Hyper Expansion (0 to 100) axes and six named weights. Readex Pro is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interfaces and reading text.

Readex Pro font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.

أبجد هوز حطي كلمن سعفص قرشت ثخذ ضظغ

Readex Pro in Arabic script: the traditional abjad letter order, set in the regular weight.
Designers
Thomas Jockin, Nadine Chahine, Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
6 6 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 160–700, Hyper Expansion 0–100
Glyphs
1,056
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.205
Used for
Body textInterfacesBranding

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

Try Readex Pro

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • ExtraLight 200Readex Pro ExtraLight
  • Light 300Readex Pro Light
  • Regular 400Readex Pro Regular
  • Medium 500Readex Pro Medium
  • SemiBold 600Readex Pro SemiBold
  • Bold 700Readex Pro Bold

Readex Pro 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 Readex Pro

Readex Pro is a sans serif family that the official notes present as the expansion of the Lexend fonts to more of the world's scripts; at present it covers Latin and Arabic. In the specimen the letters are wide and open, with round bowls, a two-storey a and generous space inside and between characters. Weight runs from 160 to 700, with six named weights from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700. Hyper Expansion (HEXP), added in October 2022, runs from 0 to 100 and enlarges the space inside and around the glyphs so that readers can adjust the texture to their comfort. There is no italic. The font holds 1,056 glyphs across Arabic, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. Thomas Jockin and Nadine Chahine designed Readex Pro, and the notes say the fonts build on the Quicksand project. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Readex Pro works

Reading apps and learning tools
The Hyper Expansion axis widens the space in and around letters, so an app can offer readers a looser or tighter text setting.
Arabic and Latin interfaces
Both scripts are in one file with the same weight range, which keeps bilingual menus and labels consistent.
Body text on screens
Open letterforms and six weights from ExtraLight to Bold cover paragraphs, emphasis and headings.
User-adjustable typography
A stylesheet can expose HEXP from 0 to 100 as a reader preference alongside font size.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,056 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

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Arabic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: arabic, 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 2018 The Readex Pro Project Authors (https://github.com/ThomasJockin/readexpro), with Reserved Font Name “RevReading Lexend”.

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 Readex Pro

Andada Pro Serif

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

Arvo Slab Serif

Readex Pro 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 Readex Pro 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 Readex Pro 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: "Readex Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ReadexPro-VariableFont_HEXP%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 160 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

HEXP is a custom axis
Hyper Expansion is set through font-variation-settings with the tag HEXP. Its default is 0.
Weight axis starts at 160
The axis reaches slightly below the lightest named weight, ExtraLight 200, and stops at Bold 700.
No italic
Readex Pro is supplied as one upright variable file.

FAQs

Is Readex Pro free for commercial use?

Yes. Readex Pro 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 and may not use the reserved font name “RevReading Lexend” without permission.

Who designed Readex Pro?

The designers of Readex Pro are Thomas Jockin and Nadine Chahine. The credits also list Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Santiago Orozco and Héctor Gómez.

Is Readex Pro a variable font?

Yes. Readex Pro is a variable font with a weight axis from 160 to 700 and a Hyper Expansion axis from 0 to 100. Its six named weights run from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700.

What is the difference between Readex Pro and Lexend?

Readex Pro is the expansion of the Lexend fonts to further scripts: according to the official notes it currently supports Latin and Arabic.

Which languages does Readex Pro support?

Readex Pro includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, and it carries an Arabic character set.

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