Lato is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Łukasz Dziedzic. It was released in 2010. The name "" is Polish for "summer".Jeremiah Shoaf, Taking A Second Look At Free Fonts, published in Typography: Practical Considerations And Design Patterns, Smashing Magazine GmbH, 2014, p. 39 Lato was published under the open-source Open Font License.
As of August 2018, Lato is used on more than 9.6 million websites, and is the third most served font on Google Fonts, with over one billion views per day.
Use Lato has been used in various physical publications, including information signs and election campaign billboards.Łukasz Majchrzyk, "Font "Lato" światowym sukcesem Łukasza Dziedzica", mobiRANK, 21 September 2015.
Lato has also been used for logotype of British international non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children since 2022.
Development Lato was created in 2010 for a Polish bank by Łukasz Dziedzic. When the bank changed its stylistic vision, he shelved the typeface, and released it later that year under the libre SIL Open Font License.
After Lato was added to Google Fonts it quickly gained popularity, becoming the third most used web font after Google's own Roboto and Open Sans, with over one billion views per day as of August 2018.Google Fonts, Analytics
Carlito is a forked typeface, released by Google, that is very similar to Lato with metrics compatible with Microsoft's Calibri typeface.
Language support Lato supports all Latin alphabets, along with Cyrillic, Greek, and IPA.Antoni Bohdanowicz, "Z czcionką jest jak z krzesłem, najpierw musi być wygodne, a dopiero potem artystyczne" – mówi typograf Łukasz Dziedzic, na:Temat, 6 April 2014 Lato was originally a type family of 400 symbols in 10 styles and is now 4000 symbols in 18 styles.
Derivatives
The Lato typeface is available in nine weights from hairline to black, each of which has a distinct italic variant.latofonts.com, The Fonts Each of these 18 variants is additionally available in a Lato Latin version, containing just the subset of glyphs required for European languages based on the Latin alphabet; this allows for smaller file sizes.
An update to Lato was made in 2014 with additional glyphs. This updated version was marketed as "Lato 2.0".
References
External links
Lato source on GitHub Latest Lato builds by applecuckoo on Github