
#Libre franklin pro
It's designed to have metrics most similar to SF Pro Text (the Apple system font) and to fall somewhere between SF Pro Text and Roboto (the Google system font) in its overall size and appearance. Public Sans is designed to be a progressive enhancement webfont, and to work well with Apple and Google system fonts as the base in its font stack. Public Sans and comparable sans-serif faces It takes inspiration from geometric sans faces of the 20th century, as well as the original Franklins of the 19th, resulting in something of a mongrel face that retains its American origin. Overall, Public Sans differs from Libre Franklin in its focus on longform reading and neutral UI applicability. Public Sans tends to use more consistent curves in its letterforms and has a focus on a smooth shape for its counters. Public Sans has relatively loose letterspacing for reading, especially when compared with Libre Franklin, which is quite compact. Public Sans is narrower, especially in rounded characters like lowercase e to help with reading flow, especially in longer texts. Conventional angled vertices result in a sharper, stronger form. Public Sans provides a more regular letterform from the conventional Franklin shape for a cleaner, more consistent letterform, especially at small sizes. 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.
