Tenor Sans

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Tenor Sans Regular

About Tenor Sans

Tenor Sans is a humanist sans serif by Denis Masharov. Unlike most sans serifs, its strokes vary in thickness: the specimen shows thin joins and crossbars against fuller stems, a pointed apex on A, wide round C, G, O and Q, and a numeral 7 with a bar through its stem. The proportions follow classical capitals, with narrow E, F and S beside the broad round letters. The official notes describe it as intended for setting text and usable in headlines, for print and for the web. The family consists of one Regular 400 file and is not a variable font. Its 477 glyphs include extended Latin and Cyrillic, with letters for Western and Central European, Baltic and Turkish alphabets. Tenor Sans was added to Google Fonts in 2011 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Tenor Sans works

Fashion and beauty branding

Thin crossbars and wide round capitals give a spaced-out brand name a refined look without serifs.

Magazine headings

The stroke contrast shows at large sizes, where the difference between hairline joins and stems becomes part of the layout.

Russian and English editions

Cyrillic and Latin share the same proportions, so a title keeps its character in Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian.

Menus and invitations

Classical capital proportions suit short centred lines such as course names or event details.

Short introductory paragraphs

Open counters keep a few lines readable, with emphasis handled by size or colour because there is one weight.

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
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Tenor Sans

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 Tenor 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Tenor Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TenorSans-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Tenor Sans 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=Tenor+Sans&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight only

Tenor Sans has a single Regular 400 file, with no bold and no italic.

Latin and Cyrillic in one file

The 477 glyphs include both alphabets, so no second font is needed for Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian text.

Crossed 7

The numeral 7 carries a horizontal bar, which is visible in prices and dates.

FAQs

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