Parkinsans

Try Parkinsans

Weights and styles

• Light 300Parkinsans Light
• Regular 400Parkinsans Regular
• Medium 500Parkinsans Medium
• SemiBold 600Parkinsans SemiBold
• Bold 700Parkinsans Bold
• ExtraBold 800Parkinsans ExtraBold

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

About Parkinsans

Parkinsans is a geometric sans serif built on near-circular bowls and strokes of even thickness. The specimen shows a single-storey a, a g with a simple hooked tail, and a y shaped like a u with a descender. Some letters depart from strict geometry: K and k have an unusual construction in which the diagonals reach the stem through a short link, and the quotation marks are heavy, rounded commas. The lowercase is large and the round letters are wide, which gives lines an open, even rhythm. The family is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 300 to 800, and six named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold. It has no italic. The 387 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. The official listing credits Red Stone, and the name table adds Indian Type Foundry. Parkinsans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Parkinsans works

Brand identities

Round bowls and the distinctive K give a name set in Parkinsans a recognisable shape, with weights to build a system around it.

Landing-page headlines

ExtraBold 800 sets a large headline, and Light 300 answers it in a subheading from the same file.

Interface labels

A large lowercase and even stroke weight keep buttons, tabs and form labels clear.

Presentation slides

The step from Regular to SemiBold separates titles, bullet text and figures on a slide.

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 Parkinsans

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 Parkinsans 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: "Parkinsans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Parkinsans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Parkinsans 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=Parkinsans:wght@300..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Parkinsans is upright only.

Opens at Light

The default instance of the variable font is Light 300; request 400 for Regular.

One variable file

The package holds the variable font. Static files for the named weights are available from the official source.

Latin scripts only

The 387 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Parkinsans

• Geometric sans-serif fonts

  Sans-serif families built on circles, straight lines and even strokes, from 1920s-inspired designs to current brand typefaces.

Similar fonts

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