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Red Hat Display

The display cut of the Red Hat identity typeface: tight spacing, a large x-height and seven weights up to Black.

Sans Serif 14 styles · variable by MCKL OFL

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Red Hat Display is a geometric sans serif designed by Jeremy Mickel of MCKL for the Red Hat identity, in the optical size for large text. Red Hat Display is a variable font with weight from 300 to 900, seven weights and italics. Red Hat Display is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headlines and branding.

Red Hat Display font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
MCKL
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
14 7 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–900
Glyphs
445
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.030
Used for
HeadlinesBrandingBoldGeometric

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

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Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Light 300Red Hat Display Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Red Hat Display Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Red Hat Display Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Red Hat Display SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Red Hat Display Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Red Hat Display ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Red Hat Display Black Black Italic

Red Hat Display 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 Red Hat Display

Red Hat Display is the larger optical size of the Red Hat typeface family, which also has a Text cut and a monospace. The official notes say Paula Scher of Pentagram commissioned the fonts and Jeremy Mickel of MCKL designed them for the Red Hat identity, drawing on American sans serifs within the geometric genre. The Display styles have low contrast, tight spacing, a large x-height and open counters; in the specimen the bowls are round and the a is two-storey. The family is variable in weight from 300 to 900, with seven named weights from Light to Black, each with an italic, 14 styles in total. Each font holds 445 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. The notes record a November 2024 update that adjusted the Medium and SemiBold weights. Red Hat Display is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Red Hat Display works

Hero headlines
Tight default spacing is set for large sizes, so big titles need little manual tracking.
Technology branding
It was drawn for a software company's identity, and seven weights with italics cover a logo lockup, taglines and campaign lines.
Slide decks
ExtraBold and Black give slide titles weight, while Light sets large quotations.
Headings above Red Hat Text
Red Hat Text takes over for small copy; the official notes say the two cuts work together across sizes.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 445 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2024 The Red Hat Project Authors (https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/RedHatFont)

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 Red Hat Display

Red Hat Text Sans Serif

Red Hat Text is the same design in its small-size cut, with looser spacing and a narrower width, so it sets body copy under Red Hat Display headings.

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 Red Hat Display 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: "Red Hat Display";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedHatDisplay-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Red Hat Display";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedHatDisplay-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Red Hat Display", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Red Hat Display with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Made for large sizes
Spacing is tight by design. For small text the family provides Red Hat Text.
Heavier than the Text cut
Display reaches Black 900, while Red Hat Text stops at Bold 700.
Two variable files
Roman and italic each come as one variable file covering weight 300 to 900.

FAQs

Is Red Hat Display free for commercial use?

Yes. Red Hat Display 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 Red Hat Display?

Red Hat Display is credited to MCKL. The official notes name Jeremy Mickel as designer and Paula Scher of Pentagram as the commissioner, for the Red Hat identity.

How many weights does Red Hat Display have?

Red Hat Display has seven weights, from Light 300 to Black 900, each with an italic, for 14 styles. It is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 900.

What is the difference between Red Hat Display and Red Hat Text?

Red Hat Display is the cut for large sizes, spaced tightly with a large x-height. Red Hat Text has a slightly smaller x-height, a narrower width and looser spacing for small sizes.

Which languages does Red Hat Display support?

Red Hat Display includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Turkish and Czech.

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