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Vollkorn

A sturdy text serif with dark, meaty serifs by Friedrich Althausen, variable from Regular 400 to Black 900.

Serif 12 styles · variable by Friedrich Althausen OFL

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Vollkorn is a serif text family by Friedrich Althausen, his first typeface, drawn as a quiet everyday face with dark, sturdy serifs. Vollkorn is a variable font with six weights from Regular 400 to Black 900, each with an italic, and 2,283 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Vollkorn font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Friedrich Althausen
Classification
Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
12 6 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 400–900
Glyphs
2,283
Languages checked
29 see the list
Last updated
version 5.001
Used for
HeadlinesBody textEditorialBold

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

Try Vollkorn

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Vollkorn Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Vollkorn Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Vollkorn SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Vollkorn Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Vollkorn ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Vollkorn Black Black Italic

Vollkorn 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 Vollkorn

Vollkorn is a serif family for everyday text. Its name is German for wholemeal, a nod to the old printers' term for the small sizes used for daily reading. The specimen shows why it looks darker than many book faces: serifs are thick and wedge-like, stems are solid, curves swell gently, and the default figures are old-style, rising and falling with the lowercase. Friedrich Althausen made it as his first typeface and published it in 2005 under a Creative Commons license; in May 2020 it was rebuilt as a variable family, roman and italic each with a weight axis. The family has six weights from Regular to Black with italics, 12 styles, on an axis from 400 to 900. Its 2,283 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. Vollkorn is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Vollkorn works

Books and long articles
Solid serifs and stems keep the page evenly dark, and old-style figures blend into running text.
Essays and blogs on the web
Two variable files deliver all 12 styles, so body, emphasis and headings load together.
Heavy serif headlines
ExtraBold 800 and Black 900 give titles real mass while staying in the text family.
Printed reports on plain paper
Thick serifs survive office printers and photocopying where finer faces break up.
Multilingual editions
Cyrillic and Greek alphabets let Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian or Greek texts share the design.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 2,283 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
  • Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, 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 2017 The Vollkorn Project Authors (https://github.com/FAlthausen/Vollkorn-Typeface)

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 Vollkorn

Alata Sans Serif

Vollkorn is serif and Alata is sans serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Geist Mono Monospace

Geist Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Vollkorn as the text face.

Albert Sans Sans Serif

Vollkorn is serif and Albert Sans is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from 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 Vollkorn 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: "Vollkorn";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Vollkorn-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Vollkorn";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Vollkorn-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Vollkorn", serif;
}

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Starts at Regular
The weight axis runs from 400 to 900. There is no light cut.
Old-style figures by default
Numerals have ascenders and descenders, as the specimen shows, which changes how tables and prices look.
Roman and italic are separate files
Each variable file covers the full weight range for its style.

FAQs

Is Vollkorn free for commercial use?

Yes. Vollkorn 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 Vollkorn?

Vollkorn was designed by Friedrich Althausen, who is based in Germany and leads the project. Vollkorn was his first typeface.

How many weights does Vollkorn have?

Vollkorn has six weights, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800 and Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 12 styles.

Is Vollkorn a variable font?

Yes. Vollkorn is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 900, in roman and italic files.

What does the name Vollkorn mean?

Vollkorn is German for wholemeal. The name refers to an old term for the small type sizes used for everyday reading.

Which languages does Vollkorn support?

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

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