Vesper Libre

Designed by Mota Italic

4 weights • Version 21 • On Google Fonts since 2014 • Popularity #872

Quick Summary

4

Styles

400-900

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

3

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
text
Scripts
Devanagari, Latin
Origin
Mumbai, India
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 5, 2025

© 2007, Robert Keller

The quick brown fox

32px

About Vesper Libre Fonts

Vesper has a classical foundation, but with an entirely modern appearance, making reading comfortable, but never boring.

Vesper's Devanagari design was started by Rob Keller in 2006 and inspired Vesper's Latin letterforms. This process was featured in a I Love Typography article in 2009. The Devanagari character set was completed in 2014 through a collaboration with Kimya Gandhi.

Vesper Libre is a special web version that has been optimized for online use. Tiny details have been simplified and the character set is reduced for the perfect balance of beautiful web typography with fast page loading.

Update, April 2015: A major revision was made that adjusted the character set, OpenType features and vertical merics.

The Vesper Libre project is led by Mota Italic, a type design foundry based in Mumbai, India. To contribute, see github.com/motaitalic/vesper-libre

Who Designed Vesper Libre?

Mota Italic portrait

Mota Italic

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