# Commissioner font

> 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.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Kostas Bartsokas
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 18 (Thin 100, ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800, Black 900)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 100–900, slnt -12–0, FLAR 0–100, VOLM 0–100)
- Glyphs: 1113
- Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Commissioner
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/commissioner
- Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Branding, Editorial

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2019 The Commissioner Project Authors (https://github.com/kosbarts/Commissioner)

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/commissioner (trendhub)