#Work Sans
A SIL Open Font project titled 'Work Sans' (former working title 'Alice') for Latin.
Work Sans is a 9 weight typeface family based loosely on early Grotesques — i.e. Stephenson Blake, Miller & Richard and Bauerschen Giesserei. The core of the fonts are optimised for on-screen medium-sized text usage (14px-48px) – but still can be used in print well. The fonts at the extreme weights are designed more for display use. Overall, features are simplified and optimised for screen resolutions – for example, diacritic marks are larger than how they would be in print.
The fonts under /fonts/desktop are OTF fonts for desktop programs such as the Adobe Suite or Office (Office fonts are only styled linked for Regular and Bold). The metrics are set so that they are more consistent across desktop programs.
The fonts under /fonts/webfonts contain TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 formats for web use. They have been autohinted with ttfautohint and manually corrected (see Notes below).
This typeface was funded by Google and will are available on Google Fonts – many thanks to Dave Crossland for the commission.
Previous to September 2015, Work Sans had 10 weights, now it has 9 due to Google Fonts engineer's recommendations. 'Hairline' has been removed. The new 'Thin' is the same as 'HairLine' in previous versions. 'Light' and 'ExtraLight' also changed accordingly. Reflow will occur from previous versions on these weights.
I hope to create italics for Work Sans but currently do not have the time or budget unfortunately.
If you spot any errors or have any suggestions for improvements you can fork this project, create an Issue or email me at [email protected].
##Notes
Source files were partly prepared for use in Metapolator.
The project started in June 2014 and the brief was to have a minimum viable product (alpha release with 9 weights) by December 2014.
There is a Telugu glyph set (Work Sans-Telugu.glyphs) that comes from Ramabhadra by Silicon Andhra. Glyphs marked red in the file are those that have been manually cleaned up, the rest are automatically cleaned up with FontForge from Ramabhadra. The Latin glyphs in Work Sans-Telugu.glyphs are out of date.
Note: There are no UFOs as UFOs exported from Glyphs App will currently not generate in Robofont and so on due to using Glyphs 2 features 'Bracket trick' and 'Brace trick' to solve interpolation bumps. Glyphs marked orange are bracket layers and glyphs marked yellow are using brace layers.
Refer to BUILD.txt for documentation on my process for hinting and generating webfonts.
Work Sans is licensed under the SIL Open Font License v1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
To view the copyright and specific terms and conditions please refer to LICENSE.txt.
This font repository follows the Unified Font Repository v2.0, a standard way to organize font project source files. Learn more at https://github.com/raphaelbastide/Unified-Font-Repository