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Spline Sans

A space-saving grotesque built for interfaces and checkout flows, variable from Light to Bold.

Sans Serif 5 styles · variable by Eben Sorkin, Mirko Velimirović OFL

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Spline Sans is a grotesque sans serif designed by Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović for interfaces, checkout processes and paragraphs of text. Spline Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from Light 300 to Bold 700, five named weights and 510 Latin and Latin Extended glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Spline Sans font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Eben Sorkin, Mirko Velimirović
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
5 5 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–700
Glyphs
510
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.001
Used for
Body textInterfacesBranding

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

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Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Light 300Spline Sans Light
  • Regular 400Spline Sans Regular
  • Medium 500Spline Sans Medium
  • SemiBold 600Spline Sans SemiBold
  • Bold 700Spline Sans Bold

Spline 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 Spline Sans

Spline Sans is a grotesque sans serif made for product interfaces. It saves horizontal space by narrowing the usual grotesque proportions, and its restrained tone is broken by small notches the designers call thorn traps, which become visible as the type gets larger. In the specimen the letters are plain and upright, with a tall lowercase and flat, horizontal stroke endings. The Spline Team initiated the typeface, and Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović designed it; the official notes also credit Faride Mereb for project management, Gonçalo Teixeira for testing and design feedback and Alejandro León for the concept. Spline Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and five named weights, without italics. Its 510 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. Sorkin Type is named as manufacturer.

Where Spline Sans works

Checkout and payment forms
The family was purpose-built for checkout processes: narrowed proportions fit field labels, amounts and error messages into tight layouts.
App interfaces
Five weights from Light to Bold cover labels, buttons and headings, and the variable axis allows in-between values.
Paragraph text in products
Plain grotesque shapes and a tall lowercase carry help pages and descriptions.
Large product headlines
At display sizes the thorn traps appear at the joins and give titles a detail that small text hides.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 510 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2021 The Spline Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/SorkinType/SplineSans)

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 Spline Sans

Adamina Serif

Spline Sans is sans serif and Adamina is serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Bevan Slab Serif

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

Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono Monospace

Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono is a monospace family (7 weights) for code and figures next to Spline 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 Spline 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: "Spline Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SplineSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
Spline Sans has five upright named weights. The download is one variable file with a weight axis only.
Latin only
The fonts contain Latin and Latin Extended subsets; no Cyrillic or Greek subset is present.
Traps show only when large
The notches are subtle at text sizes and are meant to appear as the size increases.

FAQs

Is Spline Sans free for commercial use?

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

Who designed Spline Sans?

Spline Sans was designed by Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović. It was initiated by the Spline Team, and Sorkin Type is named as manufacturer.

How many weights does Spline Sans have?

Spline Sans has five named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. Any value from 300 to 700 can be set on the weight axis.

Is Spline Sans a variable font?

Yes. Spline Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700. It has no italic.

Which languages does Spline Sans support?

Spline Sans includes the letters needed for English and Western, Central and Eastern European languages written in Latin script, such as German, French, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish.

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