Sans serif · Kevin Feyder

Cortado Sans

Q: Is Cortado Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Cortado Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

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Size72 px

Weight400 Regular

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'Cortado Sans', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

Cortado Sans is a free sans serif by Kevin Feyder, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Cortado Sans has an average x-height, is wider than 64% and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 72%. Its thickest strokes are 1.1 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.

Compare with Uncut Sans →Compare with another font

01 / Light table

Laid on top of Uncut Sans

Cortado Sans on one light table with its two closest fonts, Uncut Sans (85 out of 100) and Figtree (83). Uncut Sans is 3% narrower; Figtree is 3% narrower.

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Ink shared with Cortado SansUncut Sans…

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 Cortado Sans alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

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 / Weights

Cortado Sans in 5 weights

5 weights, 300–700

300 Light
400 Regular
500 Medium
600 Semibold
700 Bold

04 / Facts

Who made Cortado Sans, and can you use it?

Designer: Kevin Feyder
Kind: Sans serif
Styles: 5 weights, 300–700
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin, latin-ext
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.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Cortado Sans 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 Cortado Sans 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 Cortado Sans, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Cortado Sans under System. Fonts for Cricut →

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

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Cortado Sans on GitHub

05 / Measurements

Cortado Sans, measured

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

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

x-height: 50.0% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 70.0% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.71lowercase against capitals
Width: 52.3% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 38%letter box filled
Contrast: 1.07 : 1nearly even strokes

How we measure →

Where it stands among sans serifs

Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind

x-heightNear the middle of sans serifs
WidthWider than 64% of sans serifs
InkLighter than 72% of sans serifs
ContrastMore even than 80% of sans serifs

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Cortado Sans

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

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

07 / Swap

Swap Cortado Sans without a jump

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

Fallback while it loads

Until Cortado Sans loads, this sets Arial in its place at 105.7% of its size, so running text keeps Cortado Sans’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Cortado Sans Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 105.66%;
  ascent-override: 90.85%;
  descent-override: 22.71%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Cortado Sans', 'Cortado Sans Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Cortado Sans

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

Is Cortado Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Cortado Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Cortado Sans?

Cortado Sans 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 fonts/ttf 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 Cortado Sans in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Cortado Sans 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 Cortado Sans have?

Cortado Sans comes in five weights: Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), SemiBold (600) and Bold (700).

Who designed Cortado Sans?

Cortado Sans was designed by Kevin Feyder.

What fonts are similar to Cortado Sans?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Uncut Sans (85), Figtree (83) and Prodigy Sans (81), out of 100. Next to Cortado Sans, Uncut Sans is 3% narrower. See all 100 fonts like Cortado Sans.