African Fonts Google

[Beatrix Gerke]

Bringingalong a traditional touch, African fonts allow you to enrich your design both visually and culturally. Based on your choice of style, the result can be utterly simple or deeply sophisticated, but an energetic tribal look will be contributed to your work either way. There are numerous fun patterns and ornaments for decorating your artwork and they will blow your mind by conjuring a playful ancient feel.

Rabsy is a cool African pattern font and is published by D&K project. This cartoon font that is very unique has an African concept so you can use it for fun African patterns. With Rabsy you are allowed to make a lot of combinations.

Both uppercase and lowercase are featured by this font and you can make perfect designs such as kid signs, zoo or jungle signs, and African logotypes. Different languages are also supported as this font comes with extended Latin characters.

Tabu comes from a tribal Font Family and is published by Struvictory.art. Tribal patterns are used to decorate this display typeface. There are different versions available for Tabu such as decorative, black and symbol so you can use this African font for different designs. This tribal design is suitable to be used in cards, posters, titles of articles, book covers and also monograms and logos.

Jelani Display Font by chekart is a unique authentic typeface that comes with a full set of lower and uppercase letters, a wide range of punctuation and numerals. Cyrillic characters and different languages are also supported by this font. Jelani is ideal for greeting card design, book covers, graphic design, sign design for jungle or for a zoo, packaging, flyer, African logo, etc.

Afolkalips presented by Arterfak Project which is inspired by shapes of wood and ornaments of tribes. This tribal display is an all caps font which has strong strokes. We highly recommend you to use this African font for headlines or for designs with traditional themes. The ornament swashes of this typeface can help you to create a more tribal ancient look. These swashes can also be the decoration of frame for your African flyer, logo, designing signs for zoo and jungle or t-shirt designs.

Halau is a cool African typeface that belongs to a Fancy Font Family and is presented by Vintage Voyage D.S. this fancy and elegant typeface can bring fun and playfulness for your designs. HALAU Has a retro cartoon style and you can combine its different styles for your different typography designs.

Tropiline Font Family published by Studio Sun in 2019 comes with bold and elegant styles. This font is designed by Cahya Sofyan in 2016. The eighteenth-century typeface could influence the letter shapes of this font. This font is great for packaging, print advertisement, logotype, title. Etc. Uppercase and Lowercase, Numerals and Punctuation, Supports for Latin based languages are provided by Tropiline.

Afrika Images G Sangoma Font manufactured in 1998 by Fonts of Afrika. You can use this weird typeface free of cost for your personal and commercial designs. This unique African font is free of cost for commercial and non-commercial use. This headline typeface was designed by Made by Peter Slingsby, Sandvlei, South Africa.

Maroque Stencil Font by Hello Mart is a geometric font which is inspired by pattern motifs that were used in Moroccan architecture. This typeface is perfect to be used for making decorative artwork and also for decorative stencils to be used for walls or fabric. This African font includes numerals and international characters.

Maroque Font by Hello Mart is a geometric typeface inspired by Moroccan artwork. The pattern motifs of this font are mostly related to the textiles of North African people. Punctuation, numbers and International characters are fully supported by Maroque.

Austral Slab Rough by antipixel has gorgeous textures and styles that you can combine and create a distinctive impression for your design. This hand-drawn font has three weights; Regular, Light and Thin. This font comes with uneven strokes which makes it exclusive and makes it ideal for a different range of projects such as book covers, magazine design, packaging, stationery, signs for jungle or zoo and more. Austral Slab is a font with a natural handwritten feel. The font covers a large range of glyphs so you can use the Slab Serif in a wide range of languages.

Our next African font is a modern and elegant design named Grayson Boutique that comes with two amazing styles. You can use this perfect Sans Serif font for your different designs such as business cards, print, nature photography, quotes, etc.

Shipmates Font was published in 2016 by Out Of Step Font Company and is the ultimate tattoo script. The font comes with uneven edges and you can have it free of cost for any personal scanned painting projects. The included full sets of characters provide you flexibility. This African font can make your design come alive.

Mr. Poster that is an SVG Brush Font is presented by Evening Office. This hand-painted font has a unique characteristic and acrylic paint on transparency was used to make this font. If you want to create a realistic look for your designs then Mr. Poster is a good choice for you.

Las Valles Ultra Condensed Typeface is presented by NEWFLIX.Bro. This Sans Serif font that comes in 4 styles is packed with strong letters and unique ligatures. This elegant typeface allows you to mix and match two regular and rounded styles together and make a modern and fresh design. Vintage style is also available in this collection. Las Valles is suitable for using in logo designs, magazine covers, web, editorial design and much more. This is an all caps font that features numerals and punctuation.

African Elephant Trunk is published by Dharma Type the retro mini record in the early 20th century could inspire this African font. You will have advanced typography with this font as it comes with small caps.

Oakwood Press Font is designed by Cameron Humphries. This is an all caps font that is hand-crafted and creates a vintage aesthetic look. Numbers and punctuation are also supported by the font. Enjoy designing!

Muhaqu Font by SOF Design was published in 2018. This African font is perfect and free for different personal projects like logos, invitations, stationery, social media posts, tattoo scripts, etc. this typeface can create a handwriting taste.

Vector Ethnic Font is another tribal and ancient-looking African typeface that is published by GingerArt. If you are working on a distinctive designing project and looking for a unique font this typeface is yours.

Molanga is a unique brush Font published by Type Task Force. This typeface that comes with extended Latin characters and also Supports Cyrillic is perfect to be used in an aggressive environment and also in calm and cozy ones use this African font to create corporate styles.

AKOFAType Cabeza Grossa presented by AKOFA Creative has some design benefits that can make this typeface as at home on the billboards of West Africa as Cabeza Grossa would be on a logo of a jazz caf in Munich. With this African font, you will be provided with unique characters and certain glyphs so you will have more options for your designs such as book cover, invitation cards, or even storefront signage.

South African presented by Mans Greback is free for personal use. This typography font includes all caps and small caps, symbols and punctuation and numbers. It is a great choice for a wide range of projects such as tattoo designs, flyers, wedding cards, etc.

During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages (English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and more) the official languages in government, educational, cultural, and other state institutions in African countries. In post-colonial times, African countries aiming to maintain their native (non-colonial) languages face a major roadblock: not enough fonts with Pan-African support that provide all of the letters and diacritics (or accent) marks for the proper spelling of their languages.

Since there were only a few fonts with Pan-African language support, African publishers used non-Unicode fonts or their own custom encodings in printed materials such as textbooks and newspapers. This all changed when publishing moved online. Users reading online publications who didn't have a certain font encoding installed on their computer or device saw gibberish or boxes instead of the correct letters.

In May 2020, Google Fonts commissioned Jacquerye as a language consultant and Laura Meseguer as a type designer to expand the Questrial font (initially designed by Joe Prince) to include a newly defined "African Latin" glyph set. They chose Questrial because its geometric sans serif style is very commonly used and would likely be comfortable for readers.

He was born to a Congolese mother and a Belgian father in Lubumbashi, Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo or the DRC), but he grew up in Belgium. There, he learned some Lingala from his mother, visiting Congolese family members, and on trips to the DRC. After moving to Montreal, Canada to study linguistics at McGill University, he became motivated to learn Lingala when he listened to Congolese music and socialized with his relatives from the DRC.

When he found only a few fonts to type Lingala words on a computer, Jacquerye created a digital keyboard for African languages using the Latin writing system for the DejaVu font project. He combined his programming and linguistics background with his knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) that shares many letters with African alphabets.

Over a six-month period, Meseguer changed the overall letter spacing and created new characters that she had never seen before. As this work was done during the pandemic, the duo communicated through email and through video conferences. Meseguer was working from home in Barcelona, Spain and Jacquerye was in the United Kingdom. She sent Jacquerye her drafts of the new letterforms she designed and Jacquerye replied with comments on what to change.

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