Red Hat Display
Designed By
MCKL
14 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Red Hat Display · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
14 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Red Hat Display ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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Release notes for version 9
A Clear Hierarchy
Red Hat Display · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
14 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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Black900
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Black Italic900
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Paula Scher at Pentagram commissioned the Red Hat fonts for the company’s new identity, and Jeremy Mickel of MCKL drew them. For starting points he looked at American sans serifs, Tempo and Highway Gothic among them.
The family comes in 2 optical sizes and a monospace. Display, this one, is the big-type half: low contrast, tight spacing, a large x-height and open counters. Red Hat Text has a smaller x-height, a narrower body, looser spacing and thinned joins so it holds up small, and the 2 are meant to be mixed on 1 page.
7 weights run from Light to Black, every one with an italic. In November 2024 the Medium and SemiBold were nudged to sit more evenly in the range, after enough people had reported the old steps felt off.
It was spaced tight for large sizes, so we would not set paragraphs in it; that is what Red Hat Text is for. On slide titles and a homepage headline, try Medium or SemiBold first, and save the Black for a word or 2 on a cover.
Characters & Figures
406 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 397 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Red Hat Display
14 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 384 KB ↓- Version
- 1.030
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/red-hat-display/red-hat-display.css">
body {
font-family: 'Red Hat Display', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Red Hat Display Heading · Red Hat Display Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.