Spline Sans

Type tester

In context

Styles

• Regular

  Variable

  Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted

  Glyphs Download

Font DNA

Measured from the outlines of this family's styles, and placed against every font in the directory.

82%

X-height 0.55 em

Taller than 82% of the catalogue. How tall the lowercase is. A large x-height reads well at small sizes.

73%

Cap height 0.73 em

Taller than 73% of the catalogue. How tall the capitals are, measured from the baseline.

30%

Stroke contrast 14%

More contrast than 30% of the catalogue. The difference between the thick and thin strokes. Flat strokes read as modern; high contrast reads as classical.

53%

Width 0.52 em

Wider than 53% of the catalogue. How much horizontal room a character takes. Narrow faces fit more words to the line.

56%

Weight 0.09 em

Heavier than 56% of the catalogue. How thick the stems are. This is the measured weight, not the name on the file.

52%

Ink density 43%

Denser than 52% of the catalogue. How much of each character’s box is ink. Dense faces look darker in a paragraph.

Languages

Ligatures

At least 2 ligatures in Regular. Each tile shows the ligature, with the characters it comes from beneath it.

Fonts like Spline Sans

Closest by measured shape — x-height, cap height, contrast, width, weight and ink density.

• Gothic A1

  HanYang I · 9 styles

  OFL-1.1

• Sawarabi Gothic

  mshio · 1 style

  OFL-1.1

• Kufam

  Original Type · 10 styles

  Variable OFL-1.1

• Inter

  Rasmus Andersson · 18 styles

  Variable OFL-1.1

• BIZ UDGothic

  Type Bank Co. · 2 styles

  OFL-1.1

• Faculty Glyphic

  Koto Studio · 1 style

  OFL-1.1

Compare Spline Sans with Gothic A1, Sawarabi Gothic, Kufam, Inter, BIZ UDGothic or Faculty Glyphic

Sets at the same size

These share Spline Sans's x-height and roughly its width, so they sit together without one looking larger. Whether they suit each other is your call — we measured the size, not the taste.

• Merriweather x-height within 4.1, width within 11.9 points
• Slabo 13px x-height within 2.7, width within 17.6 points
• Adamina x-height within 2.9, width within 17.4 points
• Gowun Batang x-height within 0.7, width within 13.7 points

Or try something

Each of these is the closest font that is clearly different in one way.

• Narrower BIZ UDGothic
• Wider Kufam
• Lighter Inter Tight
• Heavier Nanum Gothic
• Flatter strokes Huninn
• More stroke contrast Chocolate Classical Sans
• Smaller x-height Kosugi Maru
• Larger x-height Kdam Thmor Pro
• Shorter caps Noto Sans
• Taller caps BIZ UDGothic
• Lighter on the page Inter
• Denser on the page Nanum Gothic

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1 · Verified (from google fonts)

Free to use in any project, including commercial work, websites, apps and documents, and free to modify and share. The font can't be sold on its own, and a modified version can't reuse the original's Reserved Font Name.

SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE

Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007

PREAMBLE

The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others.

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.

DEFINITIONS

"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may include source files, build scripts and documentation.

"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the copyright statement(s).

"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).

"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting, or substituting — in part or in whole — any of the components of the Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a new environment.

"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

PERMISSION & CONDITIONS

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font Software, subject to the following conditions:

1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.

2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as presented to the users.

4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written permission.

5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software.

TERMINATION

This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met.

DISCLAIMER

THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

Use on the web

Download the web kit to self-host Spline Sans. It has a fonts/ folder with a WOFF2 for each face, and this stylesheet as spline-sans.css. Its URLs point into the kit's fonts/ folder, so copy that folder and the stylesheet next to your pages together.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Spline Sans";
  src: url("fonts/spline-sans.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

/* Sized to match, so the page does not shift when the webfont loads.
   Delete this block and the "Fallback" entry in font-family if you
   do not want it. */
@font-face {
  font-family: "Spline Sans Fallback";
  src: local("Arial");
  size-adjust: 105.2%;
  ascent-override: 91.59%;
  descent-override: 22.48%;
  line-gap-override: 0%;
}

Then set: font-family: "Spline Sans", "Spline Sans Fallback", system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", sans-serif;

Download

• Regular TTF

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Kerning

At small sizes

Regular, rasterised at 10, 12, 14 and 16px with hinting on and off. Hinting is what a Windows or Linux reader sees; macOS largely ignores it.

Where it behaves differently

Read from the file itself. Anything not listed here has nothing about it worth warning you over.

• Variable font (wght)

  Anything older than Safari 11, Chrome 62 or Firefox 62 ignores the axes and renders the default instance, which is a usable static font rather than a failure. Print workflows and older design software often do the same.

• No hinting instructions

  Windows at small sizes leans on hinting, so text below about 14px can look softer or unevenly spaced there. macOS ignores hinting almost entirely and will look the same either way. The proof above shows what this font does at those sizes.

Health

Provenance

Where this font came from, and what backs the licence we list it under.

Rights

Verified

Source

https://github.com/SorkinType/SplineSans

Upstream commit

5196436e0714

Licence evidence

OFL via google fonts

Added

Nov 22, 2021

Version

Version 1.001

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x-height (em)

0.546

Cap height (em)

0.727