Atkinson Hyperlegible

Try Atkinson Hyperlegible

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Atkinson Hyperlegible Regular Italic
• Bold 700Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold Bold Italic

About Atkinson Hyperlegible

Atkinson Hyperlegible is a sans serif typeface that takes its name from the Braille Institute's founder and was developed to raise legibility for readers with low vision. It starts from a grotesque sans serif and then changes individual characters so that they are harder to mistake for one another. The specimen shows the results: a zero crossed by a slash, a capital I with serifs, a lowercase l that ends in a curved tail, a q with a spur at its foot and a Q with a long tail. The family has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, and is not a variable font. Each font has 367 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. The name table credits Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth, Linus Boman and Theodore Petrosky. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Atkinson Hyperlegible works

Accessible body text

The typeface was developed for readers with low vision, so it is a direct fit for sites and documents with accessibility requirements.

Codes, serials and passwords

The slashed zero and the different shapes of capital I and lowercase l keep look-alike characters apart.

Forms and instructions

Regular for the text and Bold for field names give the two levels a form needs.

Labels and information sheets

Distinct letter shapes help when a reader has to pick out single characters, as in dosages, room numbers or references.

Captions and interface text

Italics for both weights cover emphasis and secondary text without leaving the family.

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
• Polish
• Czech
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: 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

Fonts that pair with Atkinson Hyperlegible

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 Atkinson Hyperlegible 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AtkinsonHyperlegible-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AtkinsonHyperlegible-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AtkinsonHyperlegible-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AtkinsonHyperlegible-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Atkinson+Hyperlegible:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights only

Atkinson Hyperlegible has Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic. There are no light or medium styles.

Turkish and Slovak are incomplete

The fonts cover most Western and Central European languages, but not all letters for Turkish and Slovak are present.

Four static files

The download holds one file per style; there is no variable version in this package.

FAQs

Collections with Atkinson Hyperlegible

• Fonts for subtitles and video captions

  Plain, sturdy sans-serif families for subtitles and captions, chosen for clear letters at small sizes and, in most cases, wide language coverage.

• Fonts designed for legibility and accessible reading

  Families whose makers set out to make letters easier to tell apart: for low vision, beginning and struggling readers, and safety-critical displays.

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