Andada Pro Serif
Commissioner is sans serif and Andada Pro is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Commissioner
A humanist sans with four variable axes: weight, slant, and Flare and Volume, which grow serif-like endings.
Commissioner is a humanist sans serif with low stroke contrast, designed by Kostas Bartsokas as a variable family. Commissioner has four axes: weight from 100 to 900, slant from -12 to 0, and Flare and Volume, each 0 to 100, which reshape stroke endings. Commissioner is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interfaces, text and branding.
- Designer
- Kostas Bartsokas
- Classification
- Sans Serif
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 18 9 weights, slanted styles from the Slant axis
- Variable font
- Yes Weight 100–900, Slant -12–0, Flare 0–100, Volume 0–100
- Glyphs
- 1,113
- Languages checked
- 29 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.001;gftools[0.9.23]
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Commissioner
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Commissioner; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Thin 100Commissioner Thin
- ExtraLight 200Commissioner ExtraLight
- Light 300Commissioner Light
- Regular 400Commissioner Regular
- Medium 500Commissioner Medium
- SemiBold 600Commissioner SemiBold
- Bold 700Commissioner Bold
- ExtraBold 800Commissioner ExtraBold
- Black 900Commissioner Black
Commissioner is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range. There is no separate italic file: slanted styles are set with the Slant axis.
About Commissioner
Commissioner is a humanist sans serif of low contrast that Kostas Bartsokas planned from the start as a variable family with three voices. The default voice is a grotesque with straight stems. Raising the Flare axis, from 0 to 100, swells the stroke endings until they resemble glyphic serifs; raising Volume, also 0 to 100, sharpens those endings into wedges. A slant axis from -12 to 0 provides the italic angle, and weight runs from 100 to 900 in nine named steps, Thin to Black. In the specimen the default drawing has wide, open capitals, a double-storey a, and hairline strokes at the Thin end that thicken into a dense Black. All four axes live in one file of 1,113 glyphs covering Latin, extended Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. Commissioner was added to Google Fonts in 2020 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Where Commissioner works
- Product and marketing from one file
- The plain default voice serves interface text, while a raised Flare value gives campaign headlines a different texture in the same family.
- Editorial headlines
- Flare and Volume turn the stroke endings into flared or wedge-shaped serifs at large sizes.
- Text in Greek and Cyrillic
- Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets respond to all four axes alike.
- Emphasis without a second file
- The slant axis, from -12 to 0, produces the italic inside the same variable font.
- Brand type with a tunable voice
- Fixed values of Flare and Volume can be chosen once and used as a house style.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,113 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
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Bulgarian
- Greek
Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.
Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, 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 2019 The Commissioner Project Authors (https://github.com/kosbarts/Commissioner)
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 Commissioner
Arvo Slab Serif
Commissioner is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Fira Code Monospace
Fira Code is a monospace family (5 weights) for code and figures next to Commissioner 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 Commissioner 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: "Commissioner";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Commissioner-VariableFont_FLAR%2CVOLM%2Cslnt%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Commissioner", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Commissioner with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<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=Commissioner:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- The default instance is Thin
- The weight axis defaults to 100, so a page that does not set a weight shows hairline text.
- Flare and Volume are custom axes
- Their tags are FLAR and VOLM; on the web they are set with font-variation-settings.
- No separate italic file
- Italics come from the slant axis in the single variable file.
FAQs
Is Commissioner free for commercial use?
Yes. Commissioner is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which covers personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions remain under the same license.
Who designed Commissioner?
Commissioner was designed by Kostas Bartsokas. The copyright notice names The Commissioner Project Authors.
How many weights does Commissioner have?
Commissioner has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, and any value in between can be set.
Is Commissioner a variable font?
Yes. Commissioner is a variable font with four axes: weight (100 to 900), slant (-12 to 0), Flare (0 to 100) and Volume (0 to 100).
What do the Flare and Volume axes do in Commissioner?
Flare swells Commissioner's straight stroke endings into serif-like shapes, and Volume turns those shapes into wedges.
Which languages does Commissioner support?
Commissioner includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek.
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