Nunito font free download: the ZIP below holds 2 font files with a variable weight axis and 1,103 glyphs, plus the OFL licence.
Yes — Nunito is free for commercial use, including in apps and client websites you ship
Nunito is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL). You can use it in client work, logos, products you sell, apps and print, without paying and without asking permission.
Nunito began as a rounded-terminal display sans by Vernon Adams. Jacques Le Bailly extended it to a full weight range and drew an accompanying non-rounded version, Nunito Sans, making it a superfamily rather than a single face. Its weight axis runs unusually far — to 1000 — which gives it a heavier top end than most rounded sans faces offer.
We read the license state from the font file itself rather than from a listing. The embedding permission flag (fsType) is 0 — Installable, the least restrictive value in the OpenType specification.
Quick facts
| Designer | Vernon Adams, Cyreal, Jacques Le Bailly |
| Added to Google Fonts | August 2012 |
| Version | Version 3.602 |
| License | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Commercial use | Yes, no attribution required |
Embedding (fsType) | 0 — Installable, unrestricted |
| Variable font | Yes — 1 axis (Weight) |
| Weights | 8 named (200 ExtraLight → 900 Black) |
| Glyphs | 1,103 |
| Characters covered | 938 |
| OpenType features | 20 |
| Vietnamese support | Yes, full |
| Download size | 262 KB — 2 font files + OFL.txt |
Download Nunito
What’s in the download
The download is a single ZIP containing 2 font files plus the licence:
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
| Nunito-Italic[wght].ttf | Variable italic — 1 axis: Weight |
| Nunito[wght].ttf | Variable upright — 1 axis: Weight |
OFL.txt travels with the files — keep it in the folder if you pass the font on to anyone else. Total download 262 KB.
The download includes the OFL license file. Keep it in the package if you redistribute the font.
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What the OFL license actually lets you do
You can:
- Use Nunito in commercial projects, including client work you bill for
- Use Nunito in a logo or brand identity, and trademark that logo
- Sell products that use Nunito — merchandise, packaging, book covers
- Embed Nunito in websites, apps, games, PDFs and ebooks
- Modify Nunito and redistribute your modified version
You cannot:
- Sell the font file on its own, outside a larger bundled product
- Distribute it without the OFL license file
- Release a modified version under a Reserved Font Name
No attribution is required in your design. The OFL only asks that the license file travels with the font files.
Inside the file: 1,103 glyphs and 938 characters
Nunito ships 1,103 glyphs covering 938 Unicode codepoints.
Vietnamese, and 13 other languages in full
Tested against the full alphabets of a reference set of languages, Nunito fully covers 14:
Vietnamese · Spanish · French · German · Portuguese · Italian · Polish · Czech · Turkish · Romanian · Hungarian · Dutch · Nordic (da/no/sv) · Cyrillic
Vietnamese is fully supported, including stacked diacritics such as ế, ộ, ữ and ỹ — worth checking before you commit, because many free families stop at Latin Extended-A and silently drop them.
Which Unicode blocks those 938 characters cover
| Block | Covered |
|---|---|
| Basic Latin | 95 / 96 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 96 / 96 |
| Latin Extended-A | 126 / 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 76 / 208 |
| IPA Extensions | 4 / 96 |
| Greek | 5 / 144 |
| Cyrillic | 220 / 256 |
OpenType features: 20 in the file
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
aalt | All alternates |
calt | Contextual alternates |
case | Case-sensitive forms |
ccmp | Glyph composition |
frac | Fractions |
kern | Kerning |
liga | Standard ligatures |
locl | Localized letterforms |
mark | Diacritic positioning |
mkmk | Mark-to-mark positioning |
onum | Old-style figures |
ordn | Ordinals |
Plus 8 further feature tags in the file, mostly stylistic-set and script-specific tables.
Variable axes: 1
- Weight (
wght): 200 to 1000, continuous
Because this is a single variable file, every intermediate value is available. One file replaces the whole static weight set, which usually means a smaller total download than shipping three or four static cuts.
A mid-range x-height (0.484) — why it works across sizes
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Units per em | 1,000 |
| Ascender | 1,011 |
| Descender | -353 |
| Cap height ratio | 0.705 |
| x-height ratio | 0.484 |
An x-height ratio of 0.484 sits in the normal middle band — no strong bias toward either small-size legibility or display elegance, which is part of why it works across a range of sizes.
Right for interfaces, wrong for long reading
Good fit: Interfaces and marketing sites that want warmth without novelty; long weight ramps for a design system.
Poor fit: Anything needing sharp precision or a technical voice.
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The license state and every technical figure on this page were read directly from the Nunito font binary — fsType embedding bits, glyph counts, character coverage, OpenType feature tables, variable-axis ranges and vertical metrics — not copied from a third-party listing. Last verified 23 August 2026 against version Version 3.602.
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