Onest
sans-serif · Designed by Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev
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Onest is a geometric sans-serif with clean, rounded terminals and a friendly but professional structure. It sits in a comfortable middle ground between strict corporate typefaces and casual humanist designs, making it approachable without feeling soft or weak. The letterforms have consistent stroke widths and a slightly warm quality that keeps it from reading as cold or mechanical. It handles both display sizes and smaller text reasonably well, with good legibility across weights.
Onest works well for tech product branding where a company wants to feel modern and accessible without leaning into overly quirky or aggressive type choices. It is also a practical option for UI design in dashboards or SaaS applications, where the clean geometry supports readability across menus, labels, and body copy at various sizes. Editorial use on digital publications or company blogs is another strong fit, particularly for section headings and pull quotes where its balanced personality adds character without competing with the content.
Best suited for: Consider Onest for technology interfaces, digital editorial layouts, SaaS dashboards, and modern brand identities where approachable professionalism and consistent legibility across sizes matter.
Design considerations: The nine available weights support flexible typographic hierarchy from delicate to bold applications. Its geometric structure with rounded terminals maintains friendliness across all weights while preserving the clarity needed for interface labels and body text.
Pairing guidance: Pair Onest's geometric sans-serif with Fraunces for editorial layouts where a distinctive serif adds visual contrast and sophistication to headlines, with Source Serif 4 when a more neutral serif complement suits longer-form content, or with Space Mono to introduce monospace texture in code samples, technical documentation, or data-heavy interfaces.
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Onest at a glance
Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev
SIL Open Font License 1.1
September 2023
August 2026
9 (9 weights)
Yes: weight 100–900
Sans Serif
7
Google Fonts
All 9 Onest styles
| Weight | Name | Upright |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | Thin | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 200 | ExtraLight | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 300 | Light | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 400 | Regular | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 500 | Medium | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 600 | SemiBold | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 700 | Bold | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 800 | ExtraBold | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
| 900 | Black | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
Onest character map
Which languages does Onest support?
Onest includes 7 character sets:
- Cyrillic: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and other Cyrillic-script languages
- Cyrillic Extended: additional Cyrillic letters used in languages such as Kazakh, Tatar and Bashkir
- Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
- Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian
- Math: mathematical symbols and operators
- Symbols: arrows, shapes and other technical symbols
- Vietnamese: Vietnamese, including its stacked tone marks
Can I use Onest commercially?
Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Onest is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.