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Career

Q: Is Career free for commercial use?

Yes. Career is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “Career”.

Q: How do I download and install Career?

Career comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub. On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its Career-font-V.1 folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file.

Your words – they follow you round the site

Case

Size72 px

Weight500 MediumThe only weight it comes in

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

Find the font. Find its kind.

CSSfont-family: 'Career', serif; font-weight: 500; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

Career is a free serif, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 354 serifs on FontKind, Career has an x-height taller than 71%, is wider than 81% and, at its regular weight, is darker than 85%. Its thickest strokes are 9.0 times its thinnest: high stroke contrast.

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01 / Light table

Laid on top of Gloock

Career on one light table with its two closest fonts, Gloock (94 out of 100) and Nyght Serif (88). Gloock is 6% narrower and 9% heavier, with more stroke contrast; Nyght Serif is 11% narrower and 20% lighter, with less stroke contrast.

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Ink shared with CareerGloock…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

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02 / Letters

The Career alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 500

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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03 / Sizes

Career at every size

1 weight (500) · six sizes, in your words

12 px
16 px
24 px
36 px
48 px
72 px

04 / Facts

Can you use Career?

Designer: Not listed
Kind: Serif
Styles: 1 weight (500)
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes, under another name. Not as “Career”: the licence reserves the name.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Career is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Its licence file, in its repository

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Career comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Career, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Career under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Career on GitHub

05 / Measurements

Career, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Career. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 50.4% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 80.0% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.63lowercase against capitals
Width: 56.1% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 48%letter box filled
Contrast: 9.03 : 1high stroke contrast

How we measure →

Where it stands among serifs

Ranked against all 354 serifs on FontKind

x-heightLarger than 71% of serifs
WidthWider than 81% of serifs
InkDarker than 85% of serifs
ContrastMore contrast than 99% of serifs

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Career

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Career →Compare side by side →Get Career on GitHub

07 / Swap

Swap Career without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Career loads, this sets Times New Roman in its place at 123.5% of its size, so running text keeps Career’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Career Fallback';
  src: local('Times New Roman');
  size-adjust: 123.49%;
  ascent-override: 84.06%;
  descent-override: 15.22%;
  line-gap-override: 7.29%;
}

font-family: 'Career', 'Career Fallback', serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Career

Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list

Is Career free for commercial use?

Yes. Career is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “Career”.

How do I download and install Career?

Career comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its Career-font-V.1 folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .

Is Career in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Career comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.

How many weights does Career have?

Career comes in one weight, Medium (500). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.

What fonts are similar to Career?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Gloock (94), Nyght Serif (88) and Basteleur (78), out of 100. Next to Career, Gloock is 6% narrower and 9% heavier, with more stroke contrast. See all 100 fonts like Career.