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Unbounded

A wide variable display sans for Latin and Cyrillic, paid for through the Polkadot network's on-chain treasury.

Sans Serif 8 styles · variable by NaN OFL

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Unbounded is a wide sans serif by the type foundry NaN, made with Studio Koto, Parity Technologies and Web3 Foundation for the Polkadot network and funded from its on-chain treasury. Unbounded is a variable font with eight weights from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900 and 1,417 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Unbounded font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
NaN
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 8 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 200–900
Glyphs
1,417
Languages checked
28 see the list
Last updated
version 1.701;gftools[0.9.28.dev5+ged2979d]
Used for
HeadlinesLogosBrandingBoldTech

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

Try Unbounded

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • ExtraLight 200Unbounded ExtraLight
  • Light 300Unbounded Light
  • Regular 400Unbounded Regular
  • Medium 500Unbounded Medium
  • SemiBold 600Unbounded SemiBold
  • Bold 700Unbounded Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Unbounded ExtraBold
  • Black 900Unbounded Black

Unbounded 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 Unbounded

Unbounded is an extended sans serif built for display use. Every letter is wider than it is tall or close to it: the specimen shows flattened round shapes, a single-storey a, a very short f and t, and heavy weights whose curves keep the same broad stance. The official notes present it as possibly the first open-source typeface paid for on-chain, through the Polkadot treasury, and as joint work by NaN, Studio Koto, Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies. The name table credits Luke Prowse, Fátima Lázaro, Jean-Baptiste Morizot and Florian Runge. Unbounded has eight weights on one variable axis from 200 to 900, with no italics. Its 1,417 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese and include a set of symbols and a system for building figures. It was added to Google Fonts in 2022 under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Unbounded works

Web3 and crypto project branding
The typeface was made for the Polkadot network, so it ties a project visually to that ecosystem.
Short hero headlines
Extended letters fill the width of a screen with two or three words in any of the eight weights.
Logos and product names
Black 900 turns a short word into a solid horizontal band; ExtraLight 200 does the same with a thin line.
Cyrillic and Latin campaigns
Both scripts share the same wide proportions, so Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian titles match their Latin versions.
Stat blocks and big numbers
The built-in symbols and wide figures give dashboards and landing pages large numerals with presence.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,417 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
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 2022 The Unbounded Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/unbounded)

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 Unbounded

Cormorant Serif

Unbounded is sans serif and Cormorant is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Belgrano Slab Serif

Unbounded is sans serif and Belgrano is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Cutive Mono Monospace

Cutive Mono is a monospace family (1 weight) for code and figures next to Unbounded 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 Unbounded 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: "Unbounded";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Unbounded-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Very wide letters
Text in Unbounded takes far more horizontal room than a normal-width sans, so it suits few words per line.
No italics
The family has upright styles only, on a weight axis from 200 to 900.
Lightest weight is ExtraLight 200
The official description speaks of weights from Light to Black; the file's named weights start at ExtraLight 200.

FAQs

Is Unbounded free for commercial use?

Yes. Unbounded 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 Unbounded?

Unbounded was made by the foundry NaN in collaboration with Studio Koto, Parity Technologies and Web3 Foundation. The name table credits Luke Prowse, Fátima Lázaro, Jean-Baptiste Morizot and Florian Runge.

How many weights does Unbounded have?

Unbounded has eight weights, from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900, without italics.

Is Unbounded a variable font?

Yes. Unbounded is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 900.

Which languages does Unbounded support?

Unbounded includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

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