Font family
Raleway font
Raleway is an elegant geometric sans-serif originally designed as a single thin weight. Its refined character is well-suited to display use in fashion and luxury branding.
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Font Details
- Designer
- Matt McInerney
- Foundry
- Unknown
- Source
- Google Fonts
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Category
- sans-serif
- X-height
- low
- Styles
- normal, italic
- Subsets
- latin, latin-ext
- Weights
- 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Variable
- Yes
- Popularity
- 85/100
- Tags
- geometric, elegant, display, thin
- wghtmin 100max 900default 400
Character and Use Cases
Raleway , Raleway started as a single thin uppercase display face by Matt McInerney and grew into a full lowercase family. The modern axis keeps the elegant, airy character at light weights while the heavier cuts read as confident and contemporary.
Raleway is a display-leaning sans: the thin and light weights carry large headlines with delicacy, while the mid weights hold subheadings and short paragraphs. Its low x-height means small body text loses presence, so keep the family to headlines, navigation, and labels above 20px and set paragraphs in a stronger companion.
Use 100 to 300 for the signature airy headlines; 400 to 500 for subheadings; 600 to 800 for hero titles that need real weight. The heaviest cuts play very differently from a sturdy grotesque, so preview before you rely on them.
Production Code
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<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Raleway:wght@100;200;300;400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Pairings using Raleway
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Good typography is the visible voice of design, quiet when it should be, loud when it must.
PreviewRaleway + Lato
Raleway headlines over Lato body, a refined, minimal pairing for portfolios and fashion. Raleway's thin elegance pairs with Lato's warm humanism.
The art of typography
Good typography is the visible voice of design, quiet when it should be, loud when it must.
PreviewCormorant Garamond + Raleway
Cormorant Garamond headings over Raleway body. A high-contrast Renaissance serif for titles and a thin geometric sans for body. Used by fashion, beauty, and luxury brands that want elegant display type.
Raleway as a free alternative
Raleway appears in our alternatives guides for these commercial fonts. Each guide includes a similarity note and use-case comparison.
Futura is the seminal geometric sans-serif with strict circular forms. These open-source alternatives approximate its pure geometry.
Compare alternativesFrequently Asked Questions
- Why does Raleway look thin at body size?
- Its x-height is lower than an interface sans, so at 14 to 16px the strokes feel fragile. Setting a heavier weight or a larger size restores the effect you see in the specimens.
- Does Raleway pair with serif body copy?
- Yes, Raleway headlines over a serif like Libre Baskerville or Source Serif 4 is one of the delicate-meets-readable pairings used across the site.
Test Raleway in the playground
Drop Raleway into the typography playground, mix it with another family, and check contrast on real text.