# Tinos font

> A text serif by Steve Matteson built for document portability, with Regular, Bold and italics and 3,210 glyphs.

Tinos is a serif text family designed by Steve Matteson so that documents keep their layout when moved between platforms. Tinos has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, and 3,210 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese. The current files are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## Facts

- Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif)
- Designed by: Steve Matteson
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 4 (Regular 400, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 3210
- Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2026-05-19
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Tinos
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/tinos
- Tagged for: Body text, Editorial

## About Tinos

Tinos is a serif family for office documents and reading on screen. Steve Matteson designed it to be width-compatible with a widely installed office serif, so that text set in one can be swapped to the other without line breaks or page counts changing. The specimen shows a narrow, economical design with sharp bracketed serifs, clear stroke contrast and lining figures. The official notes describe improved on-screen readability and hinting. The family has four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, supplied as static files, and it is not a variable font. Each font holds 3,210 glyphs, with Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese character sets. The name table lists Monotype Imaging Inc. as manufacturer. The files in this package carry the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and a copyright line for The Tinos Project Authors.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2026 The Tinos Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/tinos)

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Documents shared across systems**: Matching character widths mean a report or contract opens with the same line breaks on a machine that lacks the original font.
- **Office templates**: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic are the four styles word processors expect, so toolbar buttons map to real fonts.
- **Dense printed text**: Narrow letters fit more words per line, which helps in forms, legal text and multi-column layouts.
- **Multilingual paperwork**: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese in one family keep mixed-language documents visually uniform.
- **Web pages with a classic serif**: Hinting tuned for screens keeps the thin serifs readable at text sizes on lower-resolution displays.

## Things to know

- **Two weights**: Tinos stops at Regular and Bold with their italics. There are no light, medium or black cuts.
- **License changed over time**: The official description still mentions an Apache 2.0 release from 2013; the font files and license text supplied now are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- **Static files**: The package contains four separate TTF files and no variable font.

## FAQs

### Is Tinos free for commercial use?

Yes. Tinos 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 Tinos?

Tinos was designed by Steve Matteson. The name table lists Monotype Imaging Inc. as the manufacturer.

### How many weights does Tinos have?

Tinos has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, which makes four styles. It is not a variable font.

### Why do documents keep their layout in Tinos?

Tinos was drawn with character widths that match a common office serif, so replacing one with the other leaves line and page breaks where they were.

### Which languages does Tinos support?

Tinos includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek, and it has a Hebrew character set.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/tinos (trendhub)