The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Ribeye
A free cartoon tattoo-style display face by Astigmatic, released on Google Fonts in 2011 with its outlined sibling Ribeye Marrow.
About Ribeye
Ribeye is a display typeface designed by Brian J. Bonislawsky for his foundry Astigmatic and published on Google Fonts in November 2011. It arrived with a companion, Ribeye Marrow, which renders the same letterforms as outlines. The design borrows from cartoon tattoo lettering: heavy strokes that swell and taper unevenly within each glyph, rounded terminals, and a bouncy rhythm that reads as hand-drawn rather than mechanical. It comes in a single regular weight and supports Latin-1, Latin-2, Turkish and Windows Baltic ranges.
Use it where a headline needs personality: food and drink branding, event posters, apparel, game titles and anything that wants a retro flash-art flavor. It is strictly a display face, so keep it to a few words at large sizes. Licensed under the SIL Open Font License, it is a free stand-in for paid tattoo-flash and cartoon lettering fonts, and it loads from Google Fonts without any license fee.
- Designer
- Brian J. Bonislawsky
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
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