# PT Sans font > A humanist sans from ParaType's public type project, in Regular and Bold with italics, Latin and Cyrillic. PT Sans is a humanist sans serif released by ParaType in 2009 for the Public Types of Russian Federation project. PT Sans has four styles, Regular and Bold with italics, and 720 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. PT Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits body text, documents and interfaces in Latin or Cyrillic. ## Facts - Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif) - Designed by: ParaType - License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/) - Styles: 4 (Regular 400, Bold 700; with italics) - Variable font: No - Glyphs: 720 - Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext - Last updated: 2025-09-05 - Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Sans - Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/pt-sans - Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Editorial ## 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. ## License SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2010, ParaType Ltd. (http://www.paratype.com/public), with Reserved Font Names "PT Sans" and "ParaType". Allowed: - 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. Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/ ## Where it 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. ## 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 ### Is PT Sans free for commercial use? Yes. PT Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license. ### Who designed PT Sans? PT Sans is the work of Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov. ParaType released the family in 2009. ### How many weights does PT Sans have? PT Sans has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, which makes four styles. ### Is PT Sans a variable font? No. PT Sans is not a variable font; its four styles are separate static files. ### Does PT Sans support Cyrillic? Yes. PT Sans includes the letters needed for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian, and the official notes say it covers the title languages of the Russian Federation. Latin-script languages such as English, German, Turkish and Polish are covered too. ### What fonts pair well with PT Sans? PT Sans was designed to work with PT Serif, which shares its metrics and proportions. PT Sans Caption and PT Sans Narrow extend it for small sizes and tight spaces. --- Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/pt-sans (trendhub)