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Sinews Sans
Brings humanistic muscle to technical challenges
Beyond Latin to embrace Ελληνική and Кирилица

In Sinews Sans, the modern proportions and open forms of a technical Sans are invigorated by organic twists and inflections. Trim and trimmed, its multiplexed design — each character has the same width across seven weights and styles — can bring weight and strength to page or interface without sprawl or reflow.

At large sizes, details with calligraphic origins, like the clipping of the l and tittle of the i, accent the industrial design of some characters.

The interplay between Sinews Sans’s industrial structure and human spirit is not only visible in how the supple diagonals of v, k and x play off against the square forms of round characters like O and e, it’s clearest in the Italics and Greek. Sinews may not be a calligraphic typeface, but in the subtle additional curves of the Italics, there’s handwritten flow.

Like Cera, Sinews Sans’s language support goes beyond Latin to embrace Greek and Cyrillic, with alternates for Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian. Where the Greek develops Sinews’ human qualities, the Italic Cyrillic balances the flair of cursive Italics against the pragmatism of oblique and slanted forms. Sharing widths only across the weights of the Italic we’ve packed Sinews Sans with Stylistic Set 02, for those who need a completely cursive Cyrillic.

Trained for branding, exercised in information design and readied for interfaces, Sinews Sans has all that you would expect from a TypeMates font: many glyphs, broad pan-European language support, and all the OpenType features your typography needs.

Designed by
Jakob Runge
in in 2012, 2018
Contributions
Lisa Fischbach, Nils Thomsen, Natalie Rauch, Leo Philp
Consulting & Help
Christoph Koeberlin, Irene Vlachou, Maria Doreuli
European Design Award
Finalist at the European Design Awards 2019.
Specs
Providing 14 styles, 7 weights, more than 790 glyphs per font
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SansRegularHeadlinesBody TextInterfaceIdentityLatinCyrillicGreekCleanIndustrialVariable FontItalicsDuplex
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Styles

  • Hairline
  • Hairline Italic
  • Thin
  • Thin Italic
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium
  • Medium Italic
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Black
  • Black Italic
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set: Serbian/Macedonian Cyrillic Alternates (only upright), Stylistic Set: Tabular Width Set, Stylistic Set: Upright: Bulgarian Cyrillic Alternates Italic: Non-duplex Italic Set for Cyrillic, Stylistic Set: simplified g (only upright), Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

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Making Of Sinews Sans