Introducing two new families, Cal Sans UI and Cal Sans Text. Every detail is re-considered for readers, product designers, and developers at the same time. Cal Sans UI is also a variable font, built with stylistic variations to both approach through a MODE (UI or Text Mode) axis.
Futura is a legendary typeface however its proportions and metrics defy web and app constrictions. However, only changing an x-height makes text run too long. Hence begun a 5-month exploration to make a light master and make every glyph slightly narrower while retaining the friendly, geometric appearance that has many visual benefits. The text version retains the Futura-style a and G plus the friendly Cal.com-style punctuation. Either families can change details via stylistic sets; choosing a family is a lot easier. Both come in 5 styles, many latin diacritics including Vietnamese and Marshalleese, a many dingbats, common symbols, and a single one-color emoji.
Essential for disambiguation-heavy short texts and numeral/letter mixed environments, our friend the double story a makes its debut. It literally took Mark months and cost him sleep. But he’s stoked with it ✨
We decided not to depart far from the original proportions of Cal Sans (2021) as the fairly modest x-height didn’t cost line-length compared to SF Pro/Inter.
The true test of the much-hyped accessibility, readability, or legibility is if it just works in the practically expected inopportune conditions: moving your eyes quickly, poor light, screen too far, or a litany of inevitable degenerative optical conditions (including my dad, a web accessiblity engeneer who has also lost 60% of sight accuity in one eye). You just blur it.
Cal Sans UI and Cal Sans Text has nearly a thousand glyphs and components, nearly 300 more glyphs than the previous release. And 3,000 kerns.
- Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt