Sen

Try Sen

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sen Regular
• Medium 500Sen Medium
• SemiBold 600Sen SemiBold
• Bold 700Sen Bold
• ExtraBold 800Sen ExtraBold

Sen 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 Sen

Sen is a sans serif built from geometric shapes and softened with humanist details; its publisher, Philatype, describes it as a Geohumanist sans and as its first typeface under the SIL Open Font License. In the specimen the O is close to a circle, the lowercase a is the one-storey form made of a bowl and a stem, and the capital J drops below the baseline. Capitals are wide, with pointed apexes on A, V and W. According to the official notes the family was updated in June 2023 as a variable font. Its weight axis runs from 400 to 800, with named weights Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold; there are no italics and nothing lighter than Regular. The font holds 363 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Kosal Sen is credited as designer.

Where Sen works

Clean interface text

Round, open letters and a weight range that starts at Regular suit labels, cards and settings screens.

Landing page headings

Bold and ExtraBold turn the near-round O and one-storey a into large, simple headline shapes.

Minimal brand identities

The plain geometric outlines give a wordmark a neutral, friendly tone without added ornament.

Short paragraphs and captions

Regular and Medium carry product descriptions and captions; emphasis comes from weight, since there is no italic.

Presentations

Five weights between 400 and 800 are enough to set titles, subtitles and bullet text in one family.

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 Sen

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 Sen 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: "Sen";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sen-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sen 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=Sen:wght@400..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Sen has upright styles only. A browser asked for italic will slant the roman artificially.

Starts at Regular

The weight axis runs from 400 to 800, so the family has no Light or Thin.

One variable file

The package contains a single variable TTF that holds all five named weights.

FAQs

Collections with Sen

• 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