Lato (typeface)

Short description: Free sans-serif typeface

Lato

Category| Sans-serif
Classification| Humanist
Designer(s)| Łukasz Dziedzic
Date released| December 2010[1]
License| SIL Open Font License[2]
Website| www.latofonts.com/lato-free-fonts/
Latest release version| 2.015

Lato is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Łukasz Dziedzic. It was released in 2015. The name "Lato" is Polish for "summer".[3]

As of August 2018, Lato is used on more than 9.6 million websites, and is the third most served font on Google Fonts, with over one billion views per day.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Use
* 2 Development
* 3 Language support
* 4 Derivatives
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Use

Lato has been used in various physical publications, including information signs and election campaign billboards.[4] It is the main font used on iCollege, Georgia State University's primary learning management system.

## Development

Lato was created in 2010 for a Polish bank by Łukasz Dziedzic.[1] When the bank changed its stylistic vision, he shelved the typeface,[1] and released it later that year under the libre SIL Open Font License.[2][3]

After Lato was added to Google Fonts it quickly gained popularity,[5] becoming the third most used web font after Google's own Roboto and Open Sans, with over one billion views per day as of August 2018.[6]

Carlito is a forked typeface which is very similar to Lato, it is released by Google with metrics compatible with Microsoft's Calibri typeface.

## Language support

It supports all Latin alphabets, along with Cyrillic, Greek, and IPA.[7]

## Derivatives

Lato weights

Roman

Italic

The Lato typeface is available in nine weights from hairline to black, each of which has a distinct italic variant.[8] Each of these 18 variants is additionally available in a Lato Latin version, containing just the subset of glyphs required for European languages based on the Latin alphabet; this allows for smaller file sizes.[8]

An update to Lato was made in 2014 with additional glyphs. This updated version was marketed as “Lato 2.0”.[9]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Martyna Trykozko, Lato podbija świat, czyli jak nieudane zlecenie doprowadziło do spektakularnego sukcesu Polaka, Gazeta.pl, 18 September 2015
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Lato". Google Fonts. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jeremiah Shoaf, Taking A Second Look At Free Fonts, published in Typography: Practical Considerations And Design Patterns, Smashing Magazine GmbH, 2014, p. 39
4. ↑ Łukasz Majchrzyk, Font „Lato” światowym sukcesem Łukasza Dziedzica, mobiRANK, 21 September 2015
5. ↑ "Lato" (in pl). Print & Publishing (211): 18. 2015-12-08. https://issuu.com/printandpublishing/docs/pp_pl_211_o/18. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
6. ↑ Google Fonts, Analytics
7. ↑ Antoni Bohdanowicz, "Z czcionką jest jak z krzesłem, najpierw musi być wygodne, a dopiero potem artystyczne" – mówi typograf Łukasz Dziedzic, na:Temat, 6 April 2014
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 latofonts.com, The Fonts
9. ↑ "Lato fonts" (in en-US). https://www.latofonts.com/.

## External links

* Lato source on GitHub

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Free and open-source typography

Software and libraries|

* FontForge
* Fontmatrix
* FreeType
* Ghostscript
* HarfBuzz
* Metafont
* MetaPost
* METATYPE1
* Pango
* TeX
* Graphite (SIL)
* ICU

Licenses|

* Apache License
* BSD licenses
* Creative Commons licenses
* GNU General Public License \+ GPL font exception
* GNU Lesser General Public License
* LaTeX Project Public License
* MIT License
* SIL Open Font License
* Ubuntu Font Licence

Operating system,
corporate and
professional|

* Bitstream Charter
* Bitstream Vera
* DejaVu
* Breeze Sans
* Cascadia Code
* Cantarell
* Charis SIL
* Computer Modern
* Concrete Roman
* Courier Prime
* Doulos SIL
* Droid
* Noto
* Open Sans
* Fira Sans
* Ghostscript fonts
* GNU FreeFont
* GNU Unifont
* Hershey fonts
* IBM Plex
* Liberation
* Croscore
* Literata
* Lohit
* Nimbus Mono
* Sans
* Roman
* OCR-A
* OCR-B
* Overpass
* PT Fonts
* Roboto
* Selawik
* Source Code
* Source Han Sans
* Source Han Serif
* Source Sans
* Source Serif
* STIX fonts
* Tiresias
* Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling
* Utopia
* WenQuanYi
* Zilla Slab

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typefaces|

* Amiri
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* Allerta
* Asana-Math
* Cardo
* Chandas
* Comic Neue
* Cormorant
* EB Garamond
* Gentium
* Inconsolata
* IM Fell
* Jomolhari
* Junicode
* Kochi
* Lato
* Linux Libertine
* M+
* News Cycle
* Open Baskerville
* OpenDyslexic
* Railway Sans
* Squarish Sans CT
* Theano Didot
* XITS

Groups and
people|

* Donald Knuth
* Font Awesome
* Greek Font Society
* Font Library
* Google Fonts
* SIL International

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* List of free software Unicode typefaces

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