Red Hat Text
Red Hat Text is a sans serif font in 5 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 4% narrower than the typical sans serif font. Last updated 5 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Red Hat Text
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 Text from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Red Hat Text itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 497.6 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 674.9 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 233 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | proportional (digit widths differ) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 26% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Sans serif |
Weights and styles
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Red Hat Text
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.
- Red Hat Display Regularvery close widths (9 units)
- Strichpunkt Sans Regularsimilar widths (29.3 units)
- TASA Orbiter Regularloosely similar widths (30.3 units)
- Commissioner Regularloosely similar widths (32.2 units)
- Onest Regularloosely similar widths (32.6 units)
- REM Regularloosely similar widths (33 units)
- Uncut Sans Regularloosely similar widths (33.4 units)
- Gantari Regularloosely similar widths (33.6 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Red Hat Text?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Red Hat Text itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Red Hat Text free to use?
Red Hat Text 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 Text?
By measured letter widths, Red Hat Display is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 9 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Red Hat Text support?
It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European.
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