About 200 punctuation characters, mathematical glyphs, symbols and combining accents can be shifted up for use with all caps or between lining figures. Use OT feature case

Consistent width for all tabular characters through all weights. Nine figure sets. OT features: subs, sups, numr, dnom, frac, lnum, pnum, tnum, onum, smcp Opentype stylistic sets for alternative figure forms: ss11 Boring One · ss13 Round Three · ss14 Open Four · ss17 Striked Seven · zero Slashed Zero

You can access these characters via the Opentype locl feature. In software that does not support locl you alternatively get access via Opentype style sets: ss02 Polish, ss03 Dutch, ss04 Bulgarian, ss05 Serbian Further supported localizations: Tatar, Turkish, Moldavian, Romanian, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Crimean Tatar, Northern Sami, Chuvash, Bashkir.

All recent Cyrillic languages supported, a total of more than hundred! Including Italics, Smallcaps and Localizations. Thanks to Алексей Ваняшин for great support!

At Google Fonts you get separate SC files. Here, at vollkorn-typeface.com you get each style in a single file.Use OT featuresand

Vollkorn now offers two new weights: Medium and Extrabold. SemiBold’s and Bold’s appearances were slightly adjusted for that. Italics equivalent. Use the following wheight values: “Regular” (400), New: “Medium” (500), “SemiBold” (600), “Bold” (700), New: “ExtraBold” (800), “Black” (900)

FAQ

? Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, for free. Pay what you want!

»Vollkorn« is published under the “SIL Open Font License” (OFL).

You may download the fonts, use them for commercial and non-commercial purposes, for print, web, office, apps, and everything else. And you may even change or adapt it.

Every derivate has to be released under the same OFL license and shipped together with the updated logfile (Fontlog.txt). And please tell me about.

You may not sell it by itself.

Please check the valid and detailed license FAQ at scripts.sil.org/.

It’s free. Pay what you want! via Paypal

People donated from

10 € for educational use (e. g. presentation or master thesis), or

50 € for non-commercial use (e. g. individual blog or printed publication), or up to

250 € for commercial use (e. g. corporate design or package design).

Pay what you want!

Please contact me for bank transfer or any other channel. Thanks!

On Google Fonts you get two separate families “Vollkorn” and “Vollkorn SC” (which contains the small caps). Via the download button above you get font files, that include the small caps to reach them via Opentype.

Please leave a comment below or on Github: Thanks, bugs, feature requests.

Or contact me directly.

Typeface: »Vollkorn« by Friedrich Althausen, vollkorn-typeface.com

»Vollkorn« [pronounce ‘follkorn’] is German for “wholemeal”. It refers to the old term “Brotschrift” [literally ‘bread type’] which described the small fonts for every day use in the days of hand-compositing. When the first letters were drawn in 2005 I noticed that my “Brotschrift” got quite dark, sturdy and grainy. Have a guess why I chose »Vollkorn«!

2003 I had started my studies of communication design at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany. Prior I had no idea where the small typefaces came from. After some semesters focusing on illustration I got in the typography course of Alex Branczyk and met colleagues like Yanone, Georg Seifert and Ralf Herrmann. I learned to identify typefaces along the way and got on my friends nerves reporting them every one I saw. In the following semester I started to draw my first serious typeface, assisted by Prof. Jay Rutherford.

I published my first typeface as a single style: Vollkorn Regular. Due to the fact that it was my first try and I had no clue whether it was good or not and also after the example of Yanone’s »Kaffeesatz« I released it under a Creative Commons License CC-BY, for free.

In 2010 I got a query from the emerging Google Fonts team. They asked me to upgrade Vollkorn to a four style family and publish it under the Open Font License for Google’s new webfont server. And while they paid some dollars I did it.