Mulish is a minimalist sans serif designed for both display and text. Vernon Adams drew it in 2011 and kept refining it until 2014, adding weights, support for more Latin languages, tighter spacing and kerning, and many glyph fixes based on feedback from hundreds of users. Older projects may still know it by its earlier name, Muli.
After Vernon passed away, Jacques Le Bailly completed the work in 2017, in collaboration with Vernon’s wife Allison, an artist who holds the trademark on the family name. In August 2019 the family gained a variable weight axis, now running from 200 to 1000. Mulish covers Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese.
The ZIP holds 18 static TTF files in upright and italic, plus the two variable fonts.
Best uses for Mulish
- Clean website headings and body text
- Mobile app interfaces
- Minimal logo wordmarks
- Brochures and reports
- Social media graphics
Font pairings
Mulish is calm and round, so it pairs nicely with a classic serif. Playfair Display gives drama in headlines, Lora suits longer reading, and DM Serif Display works for bold titles.
Licence & credit
Mulish is designed by Vernon Adams, Cyreal and Jacques Le Bailly and released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. That makes it free for personal and commercial use: logos, packaging, websites, apps, videos and print. You can bundle it in your own projects and modify it. You cannot sell the font files by themselves, and the licence text stays with them. Our guide to the SIL Open Font License explains what that means in practice. The family is also on Google Fonts and its source is on the project page.
Mulish Font Family
License: Personal & Commercial Use
Font Type: Free
Format: TTF
File Size: 1.1 MB
Total Files: 20
