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Cal Sans

A geometric sans in one heavy style with round bowls and close spacing, credited to Mark Davis and Cal.com.

Sans Serif 1 style by Mark Davis, Cal.com Inc. OFL

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Cal Sans is a geometric sans serif credited to Mark Davis and Cal.com Inc. Cal Sans comes in one style, named Regular but drawn heavy, with 644 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is suited to headlines, product names and other short display text.

Cal Sans font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Mark Davis, Cal.com Inc.
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
644
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.000; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
Used for
HeadlinesLogosBrandingGeometric

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 Cal Sans; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Cal Sans Regular

About Cal Sans

Cal Sans is a geometric sans serif built on near-circular bowls. The specimen shows a single-storey a, round o, c and e, a g with a simple hooked tail and capitals such as C, G, O and Q drawn close to full circles. The one style is labelled Regular 400, yet its strokes are thick enough to read as a semibold, and the letters are spaced closely, which suits large sizes more than running text. Strokes end in flat cuts, and the numerals are wide and round. There is no italic, and the font is not variable. Its 644 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended and include the letters needed for Vietnamese. The designers on record are Mark Davis and Cal.com Inc.; the font's name table gives Mark Davis of MarkFonts, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cal Sans works

Landing page headlines
Heavy strokes and close spacing make a short headline read as one compact block.
Product and app names
Round bowls and the single-storey a give a name a simple geometric signature.
Section titles
The one heavy style works as the title level above body text set in another family.
Social and launch graphics
A few words in Cal Sans hold their weight when placed over colour or imagery.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 644 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
  • Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 2021 The Cal Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/calcom/font)

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 Cal Sans

Arapey Serif

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

Bitter Slab Serif

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

Cutive Mono Monospace

Cutive Mono is a monospace family (1 weight) for code and figures next to Cal 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 Cal 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: "Cal Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CalSans-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style, drawn heavy
The only style is named Regular 400, but it looks like a semibold. Asking for bold on top of it produces an artificial bold.
Close spacing
The letters sit close together in the specimen, a fit that favours large sizes.
No italic
Cal Sans has no italic and no other weights.

FAQs

Is Cal Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Cal Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Cal Sans?

Cal Sans is credited to Mark Davis and Cal.com Inc. The font's name table names Mark Davis, trading as MarkFonts, as designer.

How many weights does Cal Sans have?

Cal Sans has one weight. It is named Regular 400 although the letters are drawn heavy, and there is no italic.

Is Cal Sans good for body text?

Cal Sans is a display face: it has one heavy style, close letter spacing and no italic. Use Cal Sans for headings and set body text in a family with a range of weights.

Which languages does Cal Sans support?

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

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