PT Sans

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400PT Sans Regular Italic
• Bold 700PT Sans Bold Bold Italic

About PT Sans

PT Sans is a humanist sans serif created so that people across Russia could read and write their own languages with a freely available typeface. The project behind it marked 300 years since Peter the Great introduced the civil type in 1708 to 1710, and it was funded by Russia's federal agency for the press and mass communications. The design draws on Russian sans serifs of the later twentieth century and adds humanist traits, visible in the open curves of a, c, e and s and in the moderate x-height. Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov designed it. This family contains the four basic styles, Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic; caption and narrow cuts are published as separate families. Each font holds 720 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where PT Sans works

Body text in Russian and English

Latin and Cyrillic were designed together for reading, with italics and bold for emphasis.

Government and public service websites

The family was created as a public typeface for broad, everyday use.

Office documents and reports

Four styles match the regular, italic, bold and bold italic buttons of a word processor.

Interface text

Open letter shapes keep words legible in menus and forms.

Text paired with a serif

PT Serif was drawn to share its metrics and proportions, so the two can alternate within a page.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 PT 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 PT 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: "PT Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSans-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "PT Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSans-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "PT Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSans-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "PT Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSans-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Two weights

PT Sans offers Regular 400 and Bold 700 with italics. There are no light, medium or black weights.

Caption and narrow cuts are separate

PT Sans Caption and PT Sans Narrow belong to the same superfamily but are installed as their own families.

Not variable

The four styles are static TTF files.

No Greek or Vietnamese

Coverage is Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Cyrillic Extended.

FAQs

Collections with PT Sans

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

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

• Type systems with matching sans, serif and mono families

  Families designed to be used together: a sans, a serif or slab and often a monospace that share proportions, weights and character.

• Fonts that support Cyrillic

  Open-license families with Cyrillic glyphs beside Latin: text sans and serifs, a monospace, scripts and display faces.

Similar fonts

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