Gilroy Font Free Download

Yes, there is an official Gilroy font free download, but it covers only two of the family’s 20 styles. The designer, Radomir Tinkov, gives away Gilroy Light and Gilroy ExtraBold on his own website, and the licence that comes in the download allows both personal and commercial use. Every other style, including Regular, Bold, Black and all the italics, is a paid font sold through MyFonts.

Gilroy font free download: which weights are free and on what terms

The Gilroy page on Tinkov’s website has a “Download 2 for FREE” button next to a “Buy Here” button. The free ZIP contains two OpenType (.otf) files, Gilroy-Light and Gilroy-ExtraBold, plus a PDF called “Radomir Tinkov Free Font EULA”. The designer’s Behance launch post from July 2016 says the same thing: “The Light & ExtraBold weights are free of charge.”

The licence PDF, dated March 23, 2018, grants a “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive and non-transferrable license” to use the font “for your personal and commercial purposes”. It lets you make graphics for screens, print and physical products, and lets you generate web fonts for your own site with @font-face. It does not let you sell, share or modify the font files.

Free download: Gilroy Light and ExtraBold (official site) 2 styles; personal and commercial use under the designer’s free EULA

Some websites call the free weights “personal use only”, which is not what the official licence says. Others offer all 20 styles for free; those copies are not authorised by the designer and come with no licence.

Gilroy font at a glance

• Designer and publisher: Radomir Tinkov, a type and graphic designer based in Sofia, Bulgaria
• Released: 2016 (the font files carry a 2016 copyright, and the Behance launch post is dated July 11, 2016)
• Style: geometric sans serif
• Family: 20 styles, 10 weights from Thin to Heavy, each with an italic
• Free version: Light and ExtraBold, personal and commercial use
• Price: $25 per style or $180 for the complete family on MyFonts (Desktop, 1 user), as of October 2026
• Languages: extended Latin and Cyrillic
• Free alternatives: Urbanist, Outfit, Figtree

Design and character

Tinkov describes Gilroy as “a modern sans serif with a geometric touch” and as “an older brother of the original Qanelas font family”, his earlier typeface. On the specimens on his Gilroy page, the round letters are close to circles, and the lowercase a and g are single-storey, the simple schoolbook shapes you see in Futura-style faces. The capital G has a flat bar and no spur, the R ends in a straight diagonal leg, and the lowercase y finishes in a short curved tail.

The x-height is generous and the letters are fairly compact, so lines of text look even rather than wide and airy. The designer suggests it for “web, signage, corporate as well as for editorial design”.

The weights cover a wide range. Thin is a hairline for large display sizes, Light and Regular work for text, and the heavy end turns into dense, chunky shapes. The italics are slanted versions of the uprights rather than cursive redrawings.

Gilroy font family: what’s in the 20 styles

MyFonts lists 20 fonts: Thin, UltraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black and Heavy, each with a matching italic. The weight chart on the designer’s page shows the same 20 styles, with Light and ExtraBold marked “FREE”. One small conflict: the font list on the front page of tinkov.info calls Gilroy a “Type Family of 18”, while the Gilroy page itself, Behance and MyFonts all show 20.

All styles are static OpenType (.otf) files; we found no variable font. MyFonts’ tech specs list every style as version 1.000 with 554 glyphs, the same as the free files.

Gilroy Bold and Gilroy ExtraBold: which one is free?

Only ExtraBold. Gilroy Bold is a separate, slightly lighter style and it is not part of the free download; on MyFonts it costs $25 for a one-user desktop licence. The free ExtraBold is the nearest weight you can use without paying.

Language support and OpenType features

We opened the two official free files. Each has 554 glyphs covering 466 characters:

• Latin: Western and Central European languages, plus Turkish, Romanian and other extended Latin. MyFonts lists more than 100 supported languages.
• Cyrillic: Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian and Belarusian are on MyFonts’ list. The character set also has the Ukrainian letters Є, І, Ї and Ґ. There are separate Bulgarian letter shapes that switch on when text is tagged as Bulgarian.
• Figures: proportional and tabular numerals (tabular figures line up in columns, useful for tables and prices), fractions, superscripts and subscripts.
• Ligatures: standard fi, fl and ff joins, plus discretionary fj and ffj ligatures you can turn on by hand.
• Stylistic set 1: alternate shapes for the Cyrillic capitals Д, Ц and Щ.
• Extras: arrows in eight directions, the numero sign №, the rouble sign ₽ and capital spacing for all-caps text.

Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Affinity and Figma can switch these features on. Canva, Cricut Design Space and most phone apps can’t reach OpenType features, so in those you get the default letters and figures.

Gilroy font pairings and best uses

Gilroy fits brand identities, websites, app screens, presentations, posters and packaging. Fonts In Use lists 25 projects, and two of its entries describe Gilroy as HBO Max’s corporate typeface, used on posters such as one for The Last of Us. In the LCMC Health identity it is the text face paired with the slab serif Jubilat.

• Using only the free weights: ExtraBold for headlines and Light for subheads and short captions make a workable pair with no extra font. Light gets thin for long body text on screens, so test it at your real size.
• With a serif: Lora gives a classic editorial contrast under Gilroy headlines.
• With a text sans: Inter or DM Sans work for paragraphs and interface text when you don’t own Gilroy Regular.

Can you use Gilroy for commercial work?

The two free styles, yes. The free EULA explicitly covers “personal and commercial purposes”, graphics on “any surface”, and web use via @font-face. That covers logos, social media graphics, printed products and your own website.

The same licence also says you can’t modify the font, create derivative works from it, or “sell, rent, lease, assign, distribute” it or “make the Font available to any third party”. In practice: don’t send the .otf files to clients or printers, and don’t bundle them with templates you sell. The EULA doesn’t mention apps, e-books or server use, so for embedding Gilroy in an app or PDF product, a MyFonts licence is the safer route.

For the other 18 styles, you need a paid licence. As of October 2026, MyFonts prices each style at $25 and the complete family at $180 for one desktop user. Webfont licences start at the same prices for 10,000 pageviews a month, an electronic document licence (e-books, PDFs) for one title is $50 per style or $360 for the family, and an app licence is $375 per style or $2,700 for the family per title per year. This is general information, not legal advice.

Buy the full Gilroy family (MyFonts)

How to download and install Gilroy

1. Open the Gilroy page on tinkov.info and click “Download 2 for FREE”. A newsletter box may pop up; you don’t have to subscribe to get the file.
2. Unzip Gilroy-FREE.zip. Inside are Gilroy-Light.otf, Gilroy-ExtraBold.otf and the licence PDF. Keep the PDF with your project files.
3. Windows: select both .otf files, right-click and choose Install (or Install for all users).
4. Mac: double-click each file and click Install Font in Font Book.
5. Restart open apps. The fonts appear as “Gilroy Light” and “Gilroy ExtraBold”.

Free fonts similar to Gilroy

If you need a free regular or bold weight, or italics, these Google Fonts are the closest matches. All three are under the SIL Open Font License, which allows commercial use.

• Urbanist: the closest overall, with single-storey a and g, round bowls and similar proportions. It has 9 weights from Thin to Black with italics. Its letters are a little rounder and lighter in colour than Gilroy’s at the same weight.
• Outfit: also uses a single-storey a and has a tidy, compact look that matches Gilroy in bold headlines. It has 9 weights but no italics, and the y has a straight tail.
• Figtree: very close in width and weight, with italics from Light to Black. The main difference is its double-storey a, which makes it read slightly more like a neutral text sans.

None of these three covers Cyrillic. If you need it, Manrope is a free geometric option with Cyrillic and Greek. Among fonts we cover, Avenir Next is a geometric sans for full text, Lemon Milk is a free geometric display face in capitals, and Atelier is a geometric display sans for logotypes.

If you’re comparing geometric sans serifs, Gotham is the Hoefler&Co. classic that Gilroy is often measured against.

For the geometric sans that started it all, compare Gilroy with Futura, Paul Renner’s 1927 design.

Another geometric sans often compared with Gilroy is Proxima Nova, one of the most widely used commercial web fonts.

Another geometric sans to compare is Century Gothic, best known as the font that was claimed to save printer ink.

Gilroy font FAQ

Is Gilroy font free?

Two styles are. Gilroy Light and Gilroy ExtraBold are free from the designer’s website for personal and commercial use. The other 18 styles are paid.

Can I use the free Gilroy for a logo?

Yes. The free EULA allows commercial graphics on any surface. You can’t modify the font files themselves or share them with others.

How much does the full Gilroy font family cost?

As of October 2026, $180 for all 20 styles, or $25 per style, on MyFonts for one desktop user. Web, app and electronic document licences are priced separately.

Who designed Gilroy?

Radomir Tinkov, a Bulgarian type and graphic designer, who also publishes it. It came out in 2016 and he calls it an older brother of his Qanelas family.

Is Gilroy in Canva?

We couldn’t confirm it in Canva’s built-in font library. Canva paid plans let you upload your own font files, but the free EULA forbids making the font “available to any third party”, so check with the designer before uploading it to an online service.

What is the closest free font to Gilroy?

Urbanist is the closest in letter shapes. Figtree is a good choice when you need a text face with italics.