Inria Sans

Try Inria Sans

Weights and styles

• Light 300Inria Sans Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Inria Sans Regular Italic
• Bold 700Inria Sans Bold Bold Italic

About Inria Sans

Inria Sans is a humanist sans serif drawn as the institutional voice of Inria, a national research institute. Together with Inria Serif it forms a two-part family that Black[Foundry] designed for the institute's communication; the sans is the more contemporary half. The specimen shows slightly narrow letters, strokes with a little modulation, terminals cut at an angle and a lowercase l that bends at the foot, details that keep the texture lively in a paragraph. The family has three weights, Light, Regular and Bold, and each has a matching italic, which gives six styles as static files. The fonts hold 589 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Grégori Vincens and Jérémie Hornus are credited as designers, while the font's own name table reads Black Foundry Team. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Inria Sans works

Research reports and papers

Regular with its italic and Bold handles running text, citations and headings in documents of the kind the institute publishes.

Institutional websites

Slightly narrow letters fit more words per line in news lists and project pages.

Slides and posters

Light at large sizes and Bold for key terms give presentations a clear two-level hierarchy.

Identities with a serif partner

Inria Serif was drawn alongside it with the same weights, so a sans and serif pairing comes ready-made.

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

Fonts that pair with Inria 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 Inria 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: "Inria Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSans-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inria Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSans-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inria Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSans-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inria Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSans-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Inria 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=Inria+Sans:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Three weights, no Medium

The steps are Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700. Nothing sits between Regular and Bold.

True italics for every weight

Each of the three weights has its own italic file.

Not variable

The six styles are separate static fonts.

FAQs

Collections with Inria Sans

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

  Sans-serif families with open, pen-influenced letterforms that stay comfortable in paragraphs, documents and interface text.

Similar fonts

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