Spline Sans - Google Fonts

About

Spline Sans is a grotesque sans serif typeface family, purpose-built for UI interfaces, checkout processes, and paragraphs of text. Space efficiency is accomplished by condensing traditional grotesque proportions. The cool and restrained tone is accented with strategic "thorn" traps, which blossom into view when set at larger sizes.

Spline Sans is an original typeface initiated by the Spline Team, and designed by Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović, with project management by Faride Mereb, testing and design feedback by Gonçalo Teixeira, and concept by Alejandro León.

Spline Sans supports an extended Latin glyph set, enabling the typesetting of English, Western, Central and Eastern European languages.

To contribute ideas and feedback, see github.com/SorkinType/SplineSans

Designers

Eben Sorkin

Eben Sorkin enjoys making type with definite personalities optimized for specific typographic purposes. He has been designing type since 2009.

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Mirko Velimirović

Mirko Velimirović lives in Brooklyn where he designs typefaces, and lettering for book covers under the name Abyss Type Company. He teaches type design at Center for Book Arts occasionally, and wrangles variable fonts constantly.

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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.