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Smooch Sans

A very narrow sans with box-shaped bowls by Robert Leuschke, variable across nine weights from Thin to Black.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Robert Leuschke OFL

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Smooch Sans is a tightly condensed sans serif by Robert Leuschke, first drawn as a companion to the Smooch brush script. Smooch Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and nine named weights, without italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits tall headlines, posters and narrow labels.

Smooch Sans font preview card
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Designer
Robert Leuschke
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
632
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.010
Used for
HeadlinesPostersBoldCondensed

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

Try Smooch Sans

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Smooch Sans Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Smooch Sans ExtraLight
  • Light 300Smooch Sans Light
  • Regular 400Smooch Sans Regular
  • Medium 500Smooch Sans Medium
  • SemiBold 600Smooch Sans SemiBold
  • Bold 700Smooch Sans Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Smooch Sans ExtraBold
  • Black 900Smooch Sans Black

Smooch 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 Smooch Sans

Smooch Sans is a condensed sans serif whose round letters are drawn as tall boxes with rounded corners. The a is a one-storey box with a stem, o and e are upright rectangles, and strokes keep one thickness, so words form narrow, even stripes. The official notes say the design began as a reduced font meant to accompany the Smooch brush script and was later given a full character set and rebuilt as a variable font. Its single axis, weight, runs from 100 to 900 with nine named instances: Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Black. There are no italics. The font holds 632 glyphs for the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Robert Leuschke is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Smooch Sans works

Poster headlines
Very narrow letters let a long title run across a poster at a large size, and Black gives it mass.
Tall display type on phones
The condensed width keeps a headline to one or two lines on a narrow screen.
Labels beside a script
The design started as a partner for a brush script, and its plain upright letters still sit calmly under expressive lettering.
Packaging side panels
Thin and Light set small-space information such as flavour names and volumes in narrow columns.
Titles in Vietnamese and Central European languages
The 632 glyphs carry the accents for Vietnamese, Czech, Polish and Hungarian headings.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 632 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
  • Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 2016 The Smooch Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/smooch-sans)

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 Smooch Sans

Bodoni Moda Serif

Smooch Sans is sans serif and Bodoni Moda is serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Bree Serif Slab Serif

Smooch Sans is sans serif and Bree Serif is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Google Sans Code Monospace

Google Sans Code is a monospace family (6 weights) for code and figures next to Smooch 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 Smooch 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: "Smooch Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SmoochSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

The default instance is Thin
The weight axis defaults to 100. Set the weight explicitly where software does not use the named instances.
No italics
Smooch Sans has nine upright weights and no italic.
Very narrow at text sizes
The box-shaped a, o and e are close in outline, so the face is drawn for large sizes more than for paragraphs.

FAQs

Is Smooch Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Smooch Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and modified versions must stay under the same license.

Who designed Smooch Sans?

Smooch Sans was designed by Robert Leuschke. The copyright notice names The Smooch Sans Project Authors.

How many weights does Smooch Sans have?

Smooch Sans has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, and the variable file allows any value in between.

Is Smooch Sans a variable font?

Yes. Smooch Sans is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 100 to 900.

Which languages does Smooch Sans support?

Smooch Sans includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages, including Western and Central European languages and Vietnamese.

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