Variable fonts.

A sparkling superfamily with sans and serif components. The serif can go from a chunky Clarendon style to a delicate Modern serif style, while the sans keeps pace. The excellent italics are waiting in the wings. Pair these two together for a rich, harmonious, and versatile palette of type, right out of the box.

A square and octagonal superfamily that comes in a sans serif and slab serif form with a pan-european character set on a weight and width axis.

Besides your typical sans and serif workhorses, the Variable format can really bring a script typeface to life, while helping you tune it for size and reading comfort. Used large, you can get away with delicately thin weights and high stroke contrast, but try a heavier weight and lower contrast for small sizes. The beauty of Elicit Script is that the changing stroke contrast also helps deliver a casual or formal tone. It does it all.

A soft and sporting typeface designed for screen with a weight and width axis. Tuned for maximum legibility, it excels at small sizes or large viewing distances.

Equal parts fun and industrial, it’s a blockhead design with a slant and optical size axis. Perfect for games, sports, packaging, or posters. Try it in short words, or to call out single glyphs like a number, symbol, or punctuation.

FS Industrie is a systematic Grotesque sans, direct and simple, without being overly rigid. If you like any of the flat-sided DIN typefaces, you will love this contemporary approach to the style. The weight and width axis adds quite a lot of flexibility.

A Geometric sans that you can use as a workhorse for daily typographic duties, with a few sharp details that add some elegance and charm. Explore the alternate glyphs for a unique touch in branding or packaging work.

Based on lettering and painted signage from the 19th Century, Wakerobin is a heavy-hitter. The lowercase is a small cap style, so reserve it for punchy headlines and subheads. The range of widths will help you fit it precisely into layouts or physical spaces. Your local brewery, distillery, or coffee shop wants this typeface, trust me.

A modern Slab Serif, Hefring Slab Variable from the Northern Block is based on simple geometry, it has minimal stroke contrast, solid serif presence and a uniform thickness of strokes. Inspired by the work of the renowned Margaret Vivienne Calvert, the font is robust, clear and functional. It supports Latin-based languages, is available in Regular and Italic and allows you to create custom weights within the versatile width and weight parameters. 

Sofia Pro from Mostardesign is a geometric sans font family embellished with modernism and the harmony of curves. With extremely rounded curves and very open terminals, this font family is elegant, friendly, and contemporary. The typeface was designed with a higher x-height than other fonts in its class to maximize tiny readability, ideal for business cards or mobile applications. For those who wish to use the font family in a variable version, Sofia Pro Variable comes in 2 files (Sofia Pro Variable Regular and Sofia Pro Variable Condensed) with 2 axes of variation (weight and italic), enabling a multitude of possibilities for any project. 

A zestful, modern interpretation of a classic genre, Touvlo skillfully captures the spirit of early British grotesque typefaces through playful terminals and lively curves. Touvlo offers an array of styles, from clean uprights to characterful Italics, and exuberant Backslants.

Neue Plak has a few details that make it more cheerful than it’s stylistic neighbors, like the lowercase r. For all you Futura fans out there, Paul Renner also designed Plak.

A geometric sans with a playful set of alternate glyphs. Clear and pure forms, with a twist.

It’s a cross breed of plain-spoken and naturally narrow American Gothic sans serifs, with the more funky early British grotesques, sharply and tidily rendered like a Swiss grotesk. Unassuming at first, but it’s charisma builds on you as you use it and see it.

The fluid and calligraphic-like features make this Geometric Humanist sans serif stand out.

A clear and compact design, Unitext is an adaptable and efficient sans serif that lives somewhere between grotesque and humanist styles. Compared to its stylistic neighbors, it has more retro flavor, especially in the lowercase a.

FS Untitled is an interactive typeface. It has been developed with screens firmly in mind. It’s technical and scientific looking, while being friendly about it.

There are a lot of colas in the world, but only one Coke. Helvetica needs no introduction. The most famous and popular typeface in the world, now in a Variable font.

The Variable format upgrades Avenir Next to the next level. Overall, the family’s design is clean, straightforward and works brilliantly for blocks of copy and headlines alike. It pairs nicely with many contemporary script and serif typefaces. It’s popular for a reason—it works everywhere.

Futura is a typographic icon. The recent upgrades and digital polish in Futura Now give it more flexibility and ease-of-use. Stylistically, it bridges the gap between strict geometry and humanist forms, which makes it easy to read and adds warmth. It can be stunningly elegant or an everyday tool, depending on what you pair it with.

The super legible and readable Frutiger typeface is a benchmark which all other Humanist sans serifs are measured against. A branding favorite for decades, and excels at looking modern and precise, honest and trustworthy, without being overly mechanical or rigid.

Univers Next is one of the original Neo-Grotesque sans that you know and love—one of the masterpiece designs by Adrian Frutiger. It has a refinement and sophistication that some lack.

One of the most popular Humanist sans serifs of the 90s still enjoys its popularity and followers. FF Meta grew from a custom project into the mighty family it is today.

A stalwart of office documents everywhere and often favored for its availability and accessibility, Century Gothic is a crowd pleaser and a brand favorite of the Geometric sans world. This paneuropean character set and Variable format maintain its contender status in the 21st century.

Originally created for Volkswagen AG in the late 70’s, you may have seen this typeface in an advertisement for a VW Beetle or printed on an old Apple keyboard. It has a familiar grotesque structure, with very rounded terminals that make it quite friendly and safe looking, but it’s tidy enough to hold confidence in technical or architectural settings.

The M XiangHe Hei Simplified Chinese typeface merges traditional brush strokes with modern letterforms to carefully balance traditional calligraphy with humanist design. XiangHe Hei is a great choice for global brands using sans serif Latin typefaces looking to maintain their visual identity. The Chinese, XiangHe Hei, comes in Traditional or Simplified forms, make sure to check out and experiment with the M XiangHe Hei Pro Variable and traditional M XiangHe Hei TC Variable.

The Seol Sans design more closely resembles the natural curve of hand-written characters. Seol Sans features Neue Frutiger for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype’s CJK typefaces Tazugane Info (Japanese) and M XiangHe Hei (Chinese).

The combination of the Tazugane Gothic typefaces’ traditional and humanistic elements, along with its intended ability to complement popular Latin typefaces, makes it one of the most uniquely flexible designs for applications where Japanese and Latin texts can be used together. The typeface family was created to have wide appeal, with a pleasing and consistent experience for readers, for use on screen, in print, in signage, packaging and advertising. You can also view the Tazugane Info typeface is a clean-cut counterpart to Tazugane Gothic, designed for the demands of on-screen use.