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Winky Sans

Designed by Typofactur

About

Winky Sans looks like the sober, grown-up cousin of Comic Sans. Informal and personable, but not silly.

Based on Aniva Sans, the letter shapes are rounded and thickened at the endings, and little irregularities were added, wich results in the impression of handwriting.

Winky Sans is a variable font with a weight axis that ranges from Light (300) to Black (900). But be careful! Like flowing ink on paper the forms grows in all directions. While the slim weights might have been written with a fineliner, the black style look like ink blots from a broken pen.

The Rough styles imitate dried ink on rough paper.

To contribute, see github.com/typofactur/winkysans.


Designer

Typofactur is a small type foundry run by German graphic designer Simon Atzbach. Simon has loved designing and working with letters since he could write. Over the last 25 years, he has developed various typefaces alongside his work on web, print and logo projects.

typofactur.de

Choosing type

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.

Winky Sans - Google Fonts