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Red Hat Text

The text cut of the Red Hat family: looser spacing, narrower letters and thinned joins for small sizes.

Sans Serif 10 styles · variable by MCKL OFL

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Red Hat Text is a geometric sans serif by Jeremy Mickel of MCKL, the small-size companion to Red Hat Display. Red Hat Text is a variable font with weight from 300 to 700, five weights and italics, 10 styles in all. Red Hat Text is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits body copy, interfaces and captions.

Red Hat Text font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
MCKL
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
10 5 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–700
Glyphs
446
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.030
Used for
Body textInterfacesGeometric

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 Text; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

  • Light 300Red Hat Text Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Red Hat Text Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Red Hat Text Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Red Hat Text SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Red Hat Text Bold Bold Italic

Red Hat Text 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 Text

Red Hat Text is the optical size of the Red Hat family intended for smaller type. Compared with the Display cut, the official notes describe a slightly smaller x-height, a narrower width, more generous spacing and thinned joins where strokes meet, all aimed at legibility in small sizes. In the specimen the letters stand a little further apart than in Red Hat Display, with round bowls and a two-storey a. The family is variable in weight from 300 to 700: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, each with an italic, 10 styles in total. Each font holds 446 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. Jeremy Mickel of MCKL designed the typeface for the Red Hat identity on a commission from Paula Scher of Pentagram. Red Hat Text is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Red Hat Text works

Paragraphs and documentation
Generous spacing and thinned joins are the adjustments the designer made for running text at small sizes.
Interface labels
Medium and SemiBold separate buttons and field labels from Regular body copy inside the same file.
Captions and footnotes
The narrower width of the Text cut fits more words per line in small print.
Body copy under Red Hat Display
The two cuts share one design, so headings and paragraphs match without a second typeface.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 446 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 Text

Red Hat Display Sans Serif

Red Hat Display is the large-size cut of the same design, spaced tightly and reaching Black 900, so it supplies the headlines above Red Hat Text.

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 Text 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 Text";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedHatText-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Red Hat Text";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedHatText-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Stops at Bold
The weight axis ends at 700. ExtraBold and Black exist only in Red Hat Display.
Latin subsets
The 446 glyphs are organised in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets.
Weights retuned in 2024
The official notes say a November 2024 update changed Medium and SemiBold slightly, so text set with an older copy can reflow.

FAQs

Is Red Hat Text free for commercial use?

Yes. Red Hat Text 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 Text?

Red Hat Text is credited to MCKL; the official notes name Jeremy Mickel as the designer. The copyright notice names The Red Hat Project Authors.

How many weights does Red Hat Text have?

Red Hat Text has five weights, from Light 300 to Bold 700, each with an italic, for 10 styles. It is a variable font, so in-between values can be set.

Can Red Hat Text be used for headlines?

Red Hat Text works at heading sizes, but the family includes Red Hat Display for that job: the Display cut is spaced more tightly and goes up to Black 900.

Which languages does Red Hat Text support?

Red Hat Text includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Polish and Turkish.

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