Sansation

Try Sansation

Weights and styles

• Light 300Sansation Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Sansation Regular Italic
• Bold 700Sansation Bold Bold Italic

About Sansation

Sansation is a sans serif family with wide proportions and strokes of even thickness. The specimen shows curves flattened toward rounded squares in letters such as a, e, o and s, and several shapes that depart from convention: the bars of the capital A and B run past the left stem, K and k join their arms to the stem in an unconventional way, and the ampersand is an open E-like form. Figures are wide and share the cap height. The family consists of six static files: Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic. It is not a variable font. The 533 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek. Bernd Montag is the designer named in the font, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sansation works

Technology and gaming interfaces

Squared curves and wide letters give menus and panels a constructed, technical look.

Headlines with a recognisable detail

The overshooting bars of A and B and the unusual K are noticeable at heading size.

Short text with emphasis

Regular with its italic and Bold covers paragraphs, stressed words and subheads.

Russian and Greek versions of a design

Cyrillic and Greek character sets sit in the same six files as the Latin.

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
• Bulgarian
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, greek, 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 Sansation

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 Sansation 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: "Sansation";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sansation-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sansation";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sansation-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sansation";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sansation-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sansation";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sansation-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sansation 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=Sansation:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Six static files

Light, Regular and Bold each have an italic. There is no Medium or SemiBold step between 400 and 700.

Not a variable font

Each style is a separate file, so a page that uses all six downloads six fonts.

Distinctive A, B and K

The unusual construction of these letters appears in the specimen's alphabet and is part of the design, so test it on the words you plan to set.

FAQs

Collections with Sansation

• Squared sans-serif fonts for tech and game interfaces

  Square-shouldered sans-serif families with two or more weights for HUDs, dashboards, esports graphics and hardware-flavored branding.

Similar fonts

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