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Alan Sans

A round, open sans serif covering Latin and Arabic, variable from Light 300 to Black 900.

Sans Serif 7 styles · variable by Raphaël Ronot, Samar Zureik OFL

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Alan Sans is a sans serif typeface by Raphaël Ronot and Samar Zureik that covers Latin and Arabic script. Alan Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 900 and seven named weights, Light to Black, without italics. It holds 793 glyphs and is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Alan Sans font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.

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Alan Sans in Arabic script: the traditional abjad letter order, set in the regular weight.
Designers
Raphaël Ronot, Samar Zureik
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
7 7 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–900
Glyphs
793
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.100
Used for
Body textInterfacesBrandingBold

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Alan Sans

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Alan Sans; the download contains the complete files.

Alan Sans font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Alan Sans specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Light 300Alan Sans Light
  • Regular 400Alan Sans Regular
  • Medium 500Alan Sans Medium
  • SemiBold 600Alan Sans SemiBold
  • Bold 700Alan Sans Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Alan Sans ExtraBold
  • Black 900Alan Sans Black

Alan Sans is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Alan Sans

Alan Sans is a sans serif family with wide, round letters and even strokes. In the specimen the O is close to a circle, the a is double-storey, the g single-storey, the y ends in a straight tail and the Q has a short diagonal one; in the Black weight the counters stay open despite the heavy strokes. Alan Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 900, with seven named instances: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Black. There are no italics. The file holds 793 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Arabic. The name table credits Raphaël Ronot and Samar Zureik as designers and gives Alan as the manufacturer; the copyright notice names The Alan Sans Project Authors. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Alan Sans works

Product interfaces
Round, open letters and seven weights give buttons, labels and headings clear steps of emphasis.
Brand communication
The range from Light to Black lets one family set a quiet paragraph and a heavy campaign line.
Arabic and Latin layouts
Arabic script is included in the same 793 glyphs, so bilingual screens and documents can stay in one family.
Headlines in ExtraBold and Black
The two heaviest weights keep their counters open at large sizes.
Text for European markets
Latin Extended supplies the letters needed for Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 793 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Arabic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: arabic, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2025 The Alan Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/alan-eu/Alan-Sans)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Alan Sans

Adamina Serif

Alan Sans is sans serif and Adamina is serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Antic Slab Slab Serif

Alan Sans is sans serif and Antic Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Anonymous Pro Monospace

Anonymous Pro is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Alan Sans as the text face.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Alan Sans on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alan Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlanSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Alan Sans", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alan Sans with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
Alan Sans has seven upright weights and no italic styles.
The file opens at Light
The default position of the variable file is weight 300, so set Regular or another weight explicitly.
One variable file
The package contains a single variable font covering the whole 300 to 900 range.

FAQs

Is Alan Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Alan Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so it can be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions keep the same license.

Who designed Alan Sans?

Alan Sans was designed by Raphaël Ronot and Samar Zureik. The name table gives Alan as the manufacturer.

How many weights does Alan Sans have?

Alan Sans has seven named weights, from Light 300 to Black 900, and no italics.

Is Alan Sans a variable font?

Yes. Alan Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 900.

Does Alan Sans support Arabic?

Yes. Alan Sans includes Arabic script alongside Latin and Latin Extended in its 793 glyphs.

Which Latin-script languages does Alan Sans support?

Alan Sans includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech and Turkish.

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Collections with Alan Sans

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    Open-license families for the Arabic script with a matching Latin: Naskh text faces, Kufi-based sans-serifs and display designs.

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