Afacad Flux Sans Serif
Ribeye is a display face for headings; Afacad Flux is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Ribeye
A playful display serif in a cartoon-tattoo lettering style, with deliberately uneven thick and thin strokes.
Ribeye is a display typeface from Astigmatic that recalls cartoon tattoo lettering, with curled terminals and stroke weight that shifts unexpectedly from letter to letter. Ribeye has one Regular style and 372 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Ribeye is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits menus, posters, logos and playful headlines.
- Designer
- Astigmatic
- Classification
- Display
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 372
- Languages checked
- 23 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.000
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Ribeye
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Ribeye; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Ribeye Regular
About Ribeye
Ribeye is a display serif that breaks the usual rules for where a letter is thick and where it is thin. In the specimen some stems are heavy and others hairline within the same word, the lowercase bounces between broad and narrow shapes, and strokes end in curls and balls: the R opens with a looped top and the ampersand is a single flourish. The official notes compare the result to a cartoon version of tattoo lettering and mention a companion design, Ribeye Marrow, which is also named in the license notice. Ribeye itself is one Regular 400 file, with no bold or italic and no variable axis. Its 372 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian letters. The font is credited to Astigmatic; the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Where Ribeye works
- Diner and grill menus
- Curled terminals and bouncing weights give dish names and section titles a cheerful, hand-lettered tone.
- Cartoon-style posters
- The uneven thick-and-thin pattern reads as drawn lettering, which suits posters for shows, fairs and markets.
- Logos for informal brands
- A looped R or a swashed ampersand can carry a small brand's mark on its own.
- Sticker and badge text
- The letterforms stay legible despite the play in weight, so a short slogan holds up at sticker size.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 372 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
- 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 (c) 2011 by Brian J. Bonislawsky DBA Astigmatic (AOETI) (astigma@astigmatic.com), with Reserved Font Names "Ribeye" and "Ribeye Marrow"
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 Ribeye
Cardo Serif
Ribeye is a display face for headings; Cardo is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Akshar Sans Serif
Ribeye is a display face for headings; Akshar is a sans serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.
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 Ribeye 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: "Ribeye";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Ribeye-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Ribeye", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Ribeye with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<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=Ribeye&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- One style
- Ribeye is a single Regular file with no bold or italic.
- Ribeye Marrow is a separate family
- The official notes and the license mention Ribeye Marrow as a companion; it is not part of this download.
- Latin and Latin Extended
- There is no Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese subset.
FAQs
Is Ribeye free for commercial use?
Yes. Ribeye is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, 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 Ribeye without permission.
Who designed Ribeye?
Ribeye is credited to Astigmatic. The copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, doing business as Astigmatic.
How many weights does Ribeye have?
Ribeye has one weight, Regular 400.
What is the difference between Ribeye and Ribeye Marrow?
Ribeye is the font described here. Ribeye Marrow is a companion design named in the official notes and in the license, published as a separate family.
Which languages does Ribeye support?
Ribeye includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian.
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