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Hedvig Letters Sans

The workhorse sans of an insurance brand's type system, drawn with its optical imperfections left in.

Sans Serif 1 style by Kanon Foundry, Alexander Örn, Tor Weibull and others OFL

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Hedvig Letters Sans is a sans serif created by Kanon Foundry with the in-house design team of the insurance company Hedvig. Hedvig Letters Sans has one Regular style with 459 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets, and its designers chose not to apply the usual optical corrections. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Hedvig Letters Sans font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Kanon Foundry, Alexander Örn, Tor Weibull, Hedvig
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
459
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.001; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.16-eb64)
Used for
InterfacesBrandingMinimalist

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

Try Hedvig Letters Sans

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Hedvig Letters Sans Regular

About Hedvig Letters Sans

Hedvig Letters Sans is a sans serif typeface made as the everyday text face of the digital insurance company Hedvig. Kanon Foundry developed it together with the company's own designers, and the name table credits Alexander Örn and Tor Weibull. The concept, as the official description tells it, was to work as someone who is not a type designer would: the small optical adjustments that normally make shapes look balanced were left out, so a few letters appear slightly odd. In the specimen the result is a plain grotesque with a wide capital G and Q, a two-storey a and a straight-legged R. The family consists of one Regular style, is not a variable font, and holds 459 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. A serif companion, Hedvig Letters Serif, belongs to the same project. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Hedvig Letters Sans works

Product interfaces
The family was built as the workhorse of a digital company's visual toolbox, for forms, buttons and explanatory text.
Brand systems with a serif partner
Hedvig Letters Serif comes from the same project, so headlines and running text can share one origin.
Plain-spoken marketing copy
Uncorrected shapes give short statements a direct, slightly awkward tone that sets them apart from polished grotesques.
Documentation and help pages
A neutral Regular with Latin Extended characters handles instructions in many European languages.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 459 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

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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2023 The Hedvig Letters Project Authors (https://github.com/KanonFoundry/HedvigLetters)

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 Hedvig Letters Sans

Hedvig Letters Serif Serif

Hedvig Letters Serif was created in the same project as the display partner to Hedvig Letters Sans, the workhorse of the pair.

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 Hedvig Letters 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: "Hedvig Letters Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HedvigLettersSans-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One Regular style
Hedvig Letters Sans has no bold or italic, so emphasis needs size, colour or another family.
Imperfections are intentional
Shapes that look a touch uneven are the design idea, not a rendering fault.
Latin scripts only
The subsets are latin and latin-ext. Cyrillic and Greek are not present.

FAQs

Is Hedvig Letters Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Hedvig Letters 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 a modified version stays under the same license.

Who designed Hedvig Letters Sans?

Hedvig Letters Sans was created by Kanon Foundry with Hedvig's in-house design department. The font's name table credits Alexander Örn and Tor Weibull.

How many weights does Hedvig Letters Sans have?

Hedvig Letters Sans has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic.

Why do some letters in Hedvig Letters Sans look unusual?

The designers of Hedvig Letters Sans left out the optical corrections that type designers normally apply, so certain shapes keep a slightly odd look on purpose.

What fonts pair well with Hedvig Letters Sans?

Hedvig Letters Sans was made alongside Hedvig Letters Serif, and the two are intended to be used together.

Which languages does Hedvig Letters Sans support?

Hedvig Letters Sans includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish and Turkish.

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