Figtree font free download: the ZIP below holds 2 font files with a variable weight axis and 459 glyphs, plus the OFL licence.
Yes — Figtree is free for commercial use, including in apps and client websites you ship
Figtree 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.
Figtree is by Erik Kennedy, a designer better known for teaching interface design than for type. It shows: Figtree is drawn as a working UI face rather than a personality face — neutral shapes, generous spacing, no ornament to get in the way of an interface. It is also the smallest file in this batch by a wide margin, which is a real advantage when you are self-hosting a variable font.
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 | Erik Kennedy |
| Added to Google Fonts | July 2022 |
| Version | Version 2.002 |
| 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 | 7 named (300 Light → 900 Black) |
| Glyphs | 459 |
| Characters covered | 391 |
| OpenType features | 19 |
| Vietnamese support | Not full |
| Download size | 71 KB — 2 font files + OFL.txt |
Download Figtree
What’s in the download
The download is a single ZIP containing 2 font files plus the licence:
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
| Figtree-Italic[wght].ttf | Variable italic — 1 axis: Weight |
| Figtree[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 71 KB.
The download includes the OFL license file. Keep it in the package if you redistribute the font.
Pairing suggestion. Spline Sans Mono on The Asset Crate — a free monospace variable font to pair for code blocks.
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What the OFL license actually lets you do
You can:
- Use Figtree in commercial projects, including client work you bill for
- Use Figtree in a logo or brand identity, and trademark that logo
- Sell products that use Figtree — merchandise, packaging, book covers
- Embed Figtree in websites, apps, games, PDFs and ebooks
- Modify Figtree 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: 459 glyphs and 391 characters
Figtree ships 459 glyphs covering 391 Unicode codepoints.
12 languages in full — Vietnamese not among them
Tested against the full alphabets of a reference set of languages, Figtree fully covers 12:
Spanish · French · German · Portuguese · Italian · Polish · Czech · Turkish · Romanian · Hungarian · Dutch · Nordic (da/no/sv)
Vietnamese is not fully covered in this file. If you need stacked diacritics such as ế, ộ, ữ and ỹ, test before committing.
Which Unicode blocks those 391 characters cover
| Block | Covered |
|---|---|
| Basic Latin | 95 / 96 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 95 / 96 |
| Latin Extended-A | 109 / 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 7 / 208 |
| Latin Extended Additional | 9 / 256 |
| General Punctuation | 15 / 112 |
| Currency Symbols | 2 / 48 |
OpenType features: 19 in the file
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
aalt | All alternates |
case | Case-sensitive forms |
ccmp | Glyph composition |
frac | Fractions |
kern | Kerning |
locl | Localized letterforms |
mark | Diacritic positioning |
mkmk | Mark-to-mark positioning |
ordn | Ordinals |
pnum | Proportional figures |
subs | Subscript |
sups | Superscript |
Plus 7 further feature tags in the file, mostly stylistic-set and script-specific tables.
Variable axes: 1
- Weight (
wght): 300 to 900, 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 (0.500) — why it works across sizes
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Units per em | 1,000 |
| Ascender | 950 |
| Descender | -250 |
| Cap height ratio | 0.700 |
| x-height ratio | 0.500 |
An x-height ratio of 0.500 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: Product interfaces, design systems, documentation, dashboards.
Poor fit: Branding that needs a distinct voice — neutrality is the whole design, and it will not carry an identity on its own.
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More free sans serif coverage
- Spline Sans Mono — a free monospace variable font to pair for code blocks
The license state and every technical figure on this page were read directly from the Figtree 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 2.002.
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