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Assistant

A Hebrew and Latin sans serif in seven weights, with Hebrew by Ben Nathan and Latin by Paul Hunt.

Sans Serif 7 styles · variable by Adobe Systems Inc., Ben Nathan OFL

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Assistant is a Hebrew and Latin sans serif family. Ben Nathan designed the Hebrew to accompany the Latin of Source Sans Pro, drawn by Paul Hunt at Adobe. Assistant is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 800, seven weights and no italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits bilingual interfaces.

Assistant font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Adobe Systems Inc., Ben Nathan
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
7 7 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 200–800
Glyphs
451
Languages checked
15 see the list
Last updated
version 3.000
Used for
Body textInterfaces

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

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Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • ExtraLight 200Assistant ExtraLight
  • Light 300Assistant Light
  • Regular 400Assistant Regular
  • Medium 500Assistant Medium
  • SemiBold 600Assistant SemiBold
  • Bold 700Assistant Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Assistant ExtraBold

Assistant 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 Assistant

Assistant is a sans serif family that sets Hebrew and Latin together. Its Hebrew was designed by Ben Nathan, a Tel Aviv type designer, as a contemporary companion to the Latin letters of Source Sans Pro, which Paul Hunt drew at Adobe; the copyright notice names both projects. In the specimen the Latin has thin, even strokes, open shapes in a, c and e, and a fairly narrow build. Assistant is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 200 to 800, and seven named weights from ExtraLight to ExtraBold. There is no italic. The font holds 451 glyphs. Its Latin covers Western European languages; the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian are not all present. The files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Assistant works

Hebrew and English websites
Both scripts come from one font, with the Hebrew drawn to sit beside the Latin, so mixed lines keep the same weight and height.
App interfaces in Hebrew
Seven weights from ExtraLight to ExtraBold give menus, buttons and headings their own level without a second family.
Large light headings
ExtraLight 200 and Light 300 are thin enough for big titles, as the specimen's headline shows.
Bilingual documents and forms
Regular for text and SemiBold or Bold for labels work across Hebrew and Latin fields alike.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 451 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
  • Slovenian
  • Estonian

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

Character sets found in the files: hebrew, latin. 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 2020 The Assistant Project Authors (https://github.com/hafontia/Assistant). Copyright 2010 The Source Sans Pro Authors (https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro), with Reserved Font Name 'Source'. Source is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or …

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 Assistant

Baskervville Serif

Assistant is sans serif and Baskervville is serif (4 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Bitter Slab Serif

Assistant is sans serif and Bitter is slab serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

DM Mono Monospace

DM Mono is a monospace family (3 weights) for code and figures next to Assistant 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 Assistant 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: "Assistant";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Assistant-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
Assistant has upright styles only. Emphasis has to come from a heavier weight.
Latin coverage is Western European
Letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Lithuanian and Latvian are incomplete.
One variable file
The package contains a single variable font covering the 200 to 800 weight range.

FAQs

Is Assistant free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Assistant may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed; it cannot be sold by itself, and a modified version keeps the same license.

Who designed Assistant?

The Hebrew of Assistant was designed by Ben Nathan, and its Latin is by Paul Hunt, from Source Sans Pro. Ben Nathan leads the Assistant project.

How many weights does Assistant have?

Assistant has seven named weights: ExtraLight 200, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold 800.

Does Assistant have italics?

No. Assistant contains upright styles only, in both Hebrew and Latin.

Is Assistant a variable font?

Yes. Assistant is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 200 to 800.

Which languages does Assistant support?

Assistant has a Hebrew character set and includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages. Several Central European languages are not fully covered.

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