The lowercase l character has a hooked tail for disambiguation. Public Sans is about 2% shorter than Libre Franklin, and has slightly looser default line spacing. Public Sans has many similarities with its parent, but differs enough in its particulars that its effect is distinct.Īdjusted vertical metrics.

Public Sans is a fork of the SIL Open Licensed face Libre Franklin. How Public Sans differs from Libre Franklin

Encourage continuous improvement - strive to be better, not necessarily perfect.

Allow for good data design with tabular figures.

Be straightforward: have as few quirks as possible.

Perform well in headlines, text, and UI.

Have a broad range of weights and a good italic.

Use metrics similar to common system fonts for smoother progressive enhancement.

Be available as a free, open source webfont on any platform.

Source files are available in src as both Glyphs files and as UFO + Designspace.

Variable fonts should be considered experimental, but can be found in binaries/variable.

Opentype fonts for installing locally and for print applications are available in binaries/otf.

Webfonts are available in binaries/webfonts.

Current font files for the Public Sans typeface.

Arial font metrics