Libertinus Sans

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Libertinus Sans Regular Italic
• Bold 700Libertinus Sans Bold

About Libertinus Sans

Libertinus Sans is a sans serif built on the proportions of a book serif. Strokes are modulated instead of uniform: stems are fuller than the arches and joins, and many terminals flare slightly, which is visible in the specimen on a, e, s and the capital S. The capitals are wide and classical, the lowercase a and g are double-storey, and the figures stand at capital height. The family has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, and one Italic, three static styles in all. Its 2,232 glyphs take in Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, Greek and Greek Extended, Cyrillic and its extension, and Hebrew characters. The designer credit is Philipp H. Poll; the font file adds Khaled Hosny, and the copyright notice names The Libertinus Sans Project Authors.

Where Libertinus Sans works

Companion to a book serif

Serif-like proportions and stroke modulation let captions, sidebars and headings sit beside serif body text without a change of rhythm.

Multilingual academic documents

Latin, Greek including the extended polytonic block, Cyrillic and Hebrew characters are in one family, useful for papers that quote several scripts.

Presentation slides

Regular and Bold give two clear levels, and the humanist shapes stay readable on a projector.

Captions and footnotes

Open counters and double-storey a and g keep small sizes legible in printed matter.

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, Hebrew. 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, greek-ext, hebrew, 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 Libertinus 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 Libertinus 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: "Libertinus Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LibertinusSans-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Libertinus Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LibertinusSans-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Libertinus Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LibertinusSans-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

No bold italic

The three styles are Regular, Italic and Bold. Bold text cannot be italicised with a true cut.

Static files

Libertinus Sans is not a variable font; weights between 400 and 700 are not available.

Contrast sets it apart

The thick-thin modulation makes it look closer to a serif without serifs than to a geometric or grotesque sans.

FAQs

Collections with Libertinus Sans

• Serif fonts for academic and scholarly writing

  Text families with very large character sets for theses, journals and critical editions: Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and historical characters.

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

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

• Fonts that cover several writing systems

  Families that set Latin together with three or more other scripts in one design, for multilingual sites, apps and documents.

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