Name Sans is a modern interpretation of the tile mosaic name tablets of the New York City subway. The architects and craftworkers who designed and laid these tiles used a letter construction that was part geometric and part grotesque, with typographic optical corrections often either exaggerated or totally missing. Name Sans interprets these ideas into an extensive type system that is at once anonymous and full of personality, useful for everything from branding to wayfinding to digital interfaces.
The project began as a series of sketches in notebooks, drawn during daily commutes in New York, and was subsequently formalized into a typeface over about four years. The original mosaic letterforms vary from station to station, but this project harmonizes the sometimes divergent ideas into a useful, extensive type system.
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| Optical Size: 12pt–72pt(+) |
| Weight: 1–1000 |
| Upright–Italic |
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| For Branding, UI, Wayfinding, & More |
| Fonts: 1 Variable / 72 Static |
| Version 1.0 |
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| Extended Latin character set, supporting 300+ languages across Europe, the Americas and Vietnam |
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Display Ultra Display Ultra Italic Display Black Display Black Italic Display ExtraBold Display ExtraBold Italic Display Bold Display Bold Italic Display SemiBold Display SemiBold Italic Display Medium Display Medium Italic Display Regular Display Italic Display Light Display Light Italic Display ExtraLight Display ExtraLight Italic Display Thin Display Thin Italic Display ExtraThin Display ExtraThin Italic Display Hairline Display Hairline Italic
Standard Ultra Standard Ultra Italic Standard Black Standard Black Italic Standard ExtraBold Standard ExtraBold Italic Standard Bold Standard Bold Italic Standard SemiBold Standard SemiBold Italic Standard Medium Standard Medium Italic Standard Regular Standard Italic Standard Light Standard Light Italic Standard ExtraLight Standard ExtraLight Italic Standard Thin Standard Thin Italic Standard ExtraThin Standard ExtraThin Italic Standard Hairline Standard Hairline Italic
Text Ultra Text Ultra Italic Text Black Text Black Italic Text ExtraBold Text ExtraBold Italic Text Bold Text Bold Italic Text SemiBold Text SemiBold Italic Text Medium Text Medium Italic Text Regular Text Italic Text Light Text Light Italic Text ExtraLight Text ExtraLight Italic Text Thin Text Thin Italic Text ExtraThin Text ExtraThin Italic Text Hairline Text Hairline Italic
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Supports 317 Languages
Extended Latin character set, supporting 317 languages across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Vietnam (as determined by hyperglot)
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