Inclusive Sans

Try Inclusive Sans

Weights and styles

• Light 300Inclusive Sans Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Inclusive Sans Regular Italic
• Medium 500Inclusive Sans Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Inclusive Sans SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Inclusive Sans Bold Bold Italic

Inclusive Sans is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Inclusive Sans

Inclusive Sans is a sans serif family for text that puts accessibility first. Olivia King started from the friendly tone of contemporary neo-grotesques and added features that keep similar characters apart. The specimen shows them: the zero has a slash through it, the capital I carries serifs at top and bottom, and the lowercase l ends in a curved tail, so 0 and O, and I, l and 1, cannot be confused. Letters have open shapes and comfortable spacing. The family is variable along one axis, weight, from 300 to 700, with Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold as named steps and an italic for each, 10 styles altogether. Roman and italic come as two variable files. The fonts contain 550 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese and are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Inclusive Sans works

Public-sector and health information

Distinct shapes for 0 and O and for I, l and 1 lower the risk of misread codes, doses and reference numbers.

Forms and account screens

The slashed zero and serifed I make passwords, IDs and order numbers unambiguous in input fields.

Body text on the web

Five weights with italics cover paragraphs, emphasis, captions and headings from one family.

Education materials

Clearly separated letterforms help readers who are still learning to tell similar characters apart.

Brand guidelines with accessibility goals

A single variable family from Light to Bold lets a brand keep one legible typeface across print and screen.

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

Fonts that pair with Inclusive Sans

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 Inclusive 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Inclusive Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InclusiveSans-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inclusive Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InclusiveSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Inclusive Sans 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=Inclusive+Sans:ital,wght@0,300..700;1,300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Slashed zero by default

In the specimen the zero is drawn with a diagonal slash. In financial tables or display headings that may not be the look you expect.

Two variable files

The download has one variable font for the upright styles and one for the italics, each spanning weight 300 to 700.

Weight stops at Bold

There is no ExtraBold or Black, and nothing lighter than Light 300.

FAQs

Collections with Inclusive Sans

• 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.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts