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Red Hat Display

Red Hat Display is a sans serif font in 7 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 4% narrower than the typical sans serif font. Last updated 10 September 2025.

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Red Hat Display Regular
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Editing a PDF that uses Red Hat Display

Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Red Hat Display from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Red Hat Display itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.

Measured metrics

Average lowercase letter width497.8 units per 1000 em
Average capital letter width669.3 units per 1000 em
Word space215 units per 1000 em
Digitsproportional (digit widths differ)
Spacingproportional
Width of i compared with m23%
Printable ASCII characters covered94 of 94
CategorySans serif

Weights and styles

Languages beyond basic Latin

Open fonts closest to Red Hat Display

Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.

  1. Red Hat Text Regularvery close widths (9.3 units)
  2. Strichpunkt Sans Regularloosely similar widths (30.7 units)
  3. TASA Orbiter Regularloosely similar widths (31.3 units)
  4. Onest Regularloosely similar widths (31.5 units)
  5. Commissioner Regularloosely similar widths (33.3 units)
  6. Hedvig Letters Sans Regularloosely similar widths (33.5 units)
  7. Figtree Regularloosely similar widths (34 units)
  8. Gantari Regularloosely similar widths (34.4 units)

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Questions people ask

+Can I edit a PDF that uses Red Hat Display?

Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Red Hat Display itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.

+Is Red Hat Display free to use?

Red Hat Display is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.

+Which font is closest to Red Hat Display?

By measured letter widths, Red Hat Text is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 9.3 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.

+Which languages does Red Hat Display support?

It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European.

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