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Pontano Sans

A light, minimalist sans by Vernon Adams, variable from Light 300 to Bold 700 with five named weights.

Sans Serif 5 styles · variable by Vernon Adams OFL

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Pontano Sans is a minimalist sans serif by Vernon Adams with a light colour and open, simple shapes. It is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and five named weights, Light to Bold, without italics. Pontano Sans has 510 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended and is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

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Designer
Vernon Adams
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
5 5 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–700
Glyphs
510
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 2.001
Used for
HeadlinesBody textInterfacesMinimalist

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

Try Pontano Sans

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

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

Pontano Sans 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 Pontano Sans

Pontano Sans is a sans serif typeface with plain, open letterforms and a light colour on the page. Strokes show only slight modulation, curves are wide, and the lowercase has a double-storey a and a moderate x-height. The official description calls it minimalist and light, made mainly for display use yet workable for text, and intended for web browsers on desktop, laptop and mobile devices. The same notes say the family became variable in February 2023, gaining a range from light to bold together with improvements to rendering and language support. Pontano Sans now has a weight axis from 300 to 700 with five named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. There are no italics. The font holds 510 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended text. Vernon Adams is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Pontano Sans works

Website headings and hero text
Display use is the main purpose named in the official description, and Light 300 gives large titles a quiet tone.
Web body copy
The description also allows for text; Regular carries paragraphs, with SemiBold or Bold for emphasis.
Uncluttered interface labels
Simple, open shapes keep buttons and form labels plain.
Minimal brand identities
A light sans with few details suits studios, architects and product brands that want restraint.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 510 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 2012 The Pontano Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/PontanoSansFont)

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 Pontano Sans

Alice Serif

Pontano Sans is sans serif and Alice is serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arvo Slab Serif

Pontano Sans is sans serif and Arvo is slab serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Courier Prime Monospace

Courier Prime is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Pontano Sans as the text face.

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 Pontano 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: "Pontano Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PontanoSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
Pontano Sans has upright styles only.
Range from 300 to 700
The axis starts at Light and ends at Bold; there is no Thin and no Black.
Variable file in the package
The download holds the variable font. Static files for the named weights are available from the official source.

FAQs

Is Pontano Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Pontano Sans is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted; the font cannot be sold on its own, and derivatives remain under the same license.

Who designed Pontano Sans?

Pontano Sans was designed by Vernon Adams. The copyright notice names The Pontano Sans Project Authors.

How many weights does Pontano Sans have?

Pontano Sans has five named weights: Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700.

Is Pontano Sans a variable font?

Yes. Pontano Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700; according to the official notes it became variable in February 2023.

Which languages does Pontano Sans support?

Pontano Sans includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, Finnish, Turkish, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian.

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