# Work Sans font > A grotesque-based sans tuned for screen text at 14 to 48 pixels, variable across nine weights with italics. Work Sans is a sans serif family by Wei Huang, based loosely on early grotesques and simplified for screens. Work Sans is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and matching italics, 18 styles, with 1,338 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interface text, body copy and headings. ## Facts - Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif) - Designed by: Wei Huang - License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/) - Styles: 18 (Thin 100, ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800, Black 900; with italics) - Variable font: Yes (wght 100–900) - Glyphs: 1338 - Character sets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese - Last updated: 2025-09-11 - Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Work+Sans - Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/work-sans - Tagged for: Headlines, Body text, Interfaces, Branding, Bold ## About Work Sans Work Sans is a sans serif family that takes early grotesque typefaces as a loose model. The specimen shows the family traits: a two-storey a and g, a wide, open lowercase, a spurred G and slightly irregular widths that keep it from looking geometric. Wei Huang, a type designer from Australia, leads the project. The middle weights are optimised for text on screen at roughly 14 to 48 pixels, and the weights near either extreme are intended for display use; details were simplified for screen resolutions, with accents drawn larger than they would be for print. The family has nine weights from Thin to Black with italics, 18 styles on a weight axis from 100 to 900, and became variable in February 2020. Its 1,338 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. ## License SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2019 The Work Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Work-Sans) Allowed: - 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. Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/ ## Where it works - **Interface and body text on the web**: Regular and the weights around it are tuned for 14 to 48 pixel text, the range of most web copy and UI labels. - **Display headlines**: Thin 100 and Black 900 are drawn for large sizes, giving a page a hairline or a very heavy title from the same family. - **Brand systems for digital products**: Eighteen named instances from two files cover logotype, marketing pages and product screens. - **Text with heavy use of accents**: Enlarged diacritics stay visible at small sizes in languages such as Vietnamese, Czech or Turkish. - **Slide decks and reports**: The open grotesque forms read well on projectors and in exported PDFs. ## Things to know - **Thin is hairline-thin**: A 2015 update made Thin 100 match the earlier Hairline design, and ExtraLight and Light were adjusted with it. - **Drawn for screens**: Shapes and accents are simplified for screen resolutions; the official notes mention a separate version for desktop applications on the project page. - **Two variable files**: Roman and italic each carry the weight axis from 100 to 900. ## FAQs ### Is Work Sans free for commercial use? Yes. Work Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license. ### Who designed Work Sans? Work Sans was designed by Wei Huang, an Australian type designer who leads the project. ### How many weights does Work Sans have? Work Sans has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 18 styles. ### Is Work Sans a variable font? Yes. Work Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900; it was upgraded to variable in February 2020. ### Which languages does Work Sans support? Work Sans includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech and Vietnamese. --- Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/work-sans (trendhub)