Libre Franklin Font

Impallari Type’s project interprets and extends Morris Fuller Benton’s 1912 Franklin Gothic. The contemporary family should therefore be understood as an independent expansion, not the historical original’s files.

The Google Fonts catalog credits Impallari Type. Read the official project description for the source account. The catalog lists this family as added on 2016-06-15; that is a directory date, not proof of when the design was first created.

The reviewed catalog lists 18 listed styles for Libre Franklin, with weight values 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900. Italic styles are included in that listing. The catalog also lists variable axes wght. This preview selects named styles; it does not expose every variable-axis setting.

Listed script subsets are cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. Subset names describe catalog coverage, not a guarantee that every language or specialist character is supported. Enter the exact names, punctuation, or script you need and check the result in your final application.

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For a related comparison, inspect Instrument Sans and Teko. These are same-category candidates for comparison, not an assertion that their spacing or design is interchangeable. Use the same sample phrase and output size so the comparison tests the layout rather than different words.

The verified repository includes Libre Franklin under SIL Open Font License 1.1. Use the official Google Fonts page to obtain the family and read the included license for the specific distribution. This site does not claim that a font with a similar name or a third-party download has the same license.

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