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Human Sans

Designer:Neil Summerour
Collaborator:Potch Auacherdkul
Initial Release:2026
Styles:80
Collection Overview
Human
Human Narrow
Human Condensed
Available Writing Systems
Available Styles
ThinThin ItalicLightLight ItalicRegularItalicMediumMedium ItalicBoldBold ItalicExtraBoldExtraBold ItalicBlackBlack ItalicUltraUltra Italic
OpenType Features
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ff fi fl ffl
Standard Ligaturesliga
ON
12345/67890
Fractionsfrac
ON
x1+y3=z58
Superscriptsups
ON
H2O K2SO4
Scientific Inferiorssinf
ON
1st 2nd 3rd
Ordinalsordn
ON
[H] H@ ¿H
Case-Sensitive Formscase
ON
0123456789
Tabular Numeralstnum
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Specimens
Thin72px
Cinematography
Light72px
Nonintervention
Regular72px
Extraterrestrials
Medium72px
Acquisitiveness
Bold72px
Predominantly
ExtraBold72px
Microbiologist
Black72px
Domesticated
Ultra72px
Interweaving
Thin72px
The strength of humanity lies in kindness
Light72px
We rise together through shared suffering
Regular72px
Every wound reveals sources of new wisdom
Medium72px
Hope is the quiet voice inside the storms
Bold72px
Courage is not the absence of all our fear
ExtraBold72px
The human spirit cannot be easily broken
Black72px
We are flawed & still worthy of deep love
Ultra72px
In our struggles we discover ourselves
Light Italic40px
There is something profoundly beautiful about the way human beings endure. We carry grief in our bones, doubt in our thoughts, and still we wake each morning choosing to try again. This persistence is not born of logic or reason. It is an instinct woven into our very nature, an ancient refusal to surrender to the darkness. We stumble, we fall, and somehow we find the will to stand once more.
Italic36px
Compassion is the thread that binds humanity together across every border, language, and generation. When a stranger pauses to help another, something sacred occurs. It is a recognition that we share the same fragile existence, the same longing for connection. In those small, unremarkable moments of care, we glimpse what it truly means to be human. Not powerful, not perfect, but present for one another.
Medium Italic32px
Triumph does not always arrive with fanfare. Sometimes it is simply getting through another difficult day. Sometimes it is choosing forgiveness when resentment would be easier. The greatest victories of the human spirit are often invisible to the outside world, fought in silence within the chambers of the heart. These quiet triumphs are the ones that shape who we become and how we carry ourselves forward through life.
Medium21px
Throughout history, human beings have confronted suffering with an extraordinary capacity for resilience. From the earliest migrations across unknown landscapes to the modern struggles for dignity and justice, the story of our species is one of relentless forward motion. We do not simply survive. We create meaning from chaos, beauty from pain, and community from solitude. Consider the artist who paints after losing sight in one eye, the refugee who builds a new life from nothing, the parent who works through exhaustion so a child might have a better future. These are not exceptional cases. They are the ordinary fabric of human experience, repeated across every culture and every century. The human condition demands that we face loss, uncertainty, and limitation. Our triumph is that we do so without losing our capacity for wonder. There is a particular kind of courage that goes unrecognized. It is not the courage of battlefields or grand gestures. It is the courage of vulnerability, of admitting when we are wrong, of loving someone despite knowing that love brings the possibility of loss. This everyday bravery is what sustains families, friendships, and societies. It is the quiet engine of human progress. We are, all of us, imperfect beings navigating an imperfect world. We contradict ourselves, repeat our mistakes, and sometimes fail the people we love the most. Yet within that imperfection lives something remarkable: the persistent belief that tomorrow can be better than today. That belief, fragile and stubborn in equal measure, is perhaps the most human thing about us. It is what separates endurance from mere existence, and it is what makes the human story worth telling.
Regular18px
The concept of empathy may be humanity's greatest evolutionary gift. Unlike raw intelligence or physical strength, empathy requires us to step beyond ourselves and inhabit, however briefly, the experience of another person. It is a radical act of imagination, and it is available to every single one of us regardless of education, wealth, or circumstance. When we sit beside someone in grief, we do not take their pain away. But we change its weight. We transform solitary suffering into shared experience, and in doing so, we remind both ourselves and the other person that no one is truly alone. This is not a small thing. Across millennia, it is this instinct toward connection that has allowed human communities to survive famine, war, natural disaster, and the countless private catastrophes that mark an ordinary life. The modern world often celebrates individual achievement. We admire the entrepreneur, the athlete, the self-made success story. But beneath every individual triumph is a network of unseen support: the teacher who believed, the friend who listened, the stranger who offered a moment of unexpected kindness. Human triumph is never truly solitary. It is collective by nature, even when it appears to belong to one person alone. Perhaps the most courageous thing any of us can do is remain open. Open to change, to being wrong, to loving again after heartbreak. The human condition is one of constant uncertainty, and our instinct is often to protect ourselves by closing down. But the people who inspire us most are those who stay open despite everything, who continue to meet the world with curiosity and tenderness. They remind us that the heart, like the body, is designed to heal.
Thin15px
Throughout history, human beings have confronted suffering with an extraordinary capacity for resilience. From the earliest migrations across unknown landscapes to the modern struggles for dignity and justice, the story of our species is one of relentless forward motion. We do not simply survive. We create meaning from chaos, beauty from pain, and community from solitude. Consider the artist who paints after losing sight in one eye, the refugee who builds a new life from nothing, the parent who works through exhaustion so a child might have a better future. These are not exceptional cases. They are the ordinary fabric of human experience, repeated across every culture and every century. The human condition demands that we face loss, uncertainty, and limitation. Our triumph is that we do so without losing our capacity for wonder. There is a particular kind of courage that goes unrecognized. It is not the courage of battlefields or grand gestures. It is the courage of vulnerability, of admitting when we are wrong, of loving someone despite knowing that love brings the possibility of loss. This everyday bravery is what sustains families, friendships, and societies. It is the quiet engine of human progress. We are, all of us, imperfect beings navigating an imperfect world. We contradict ourselves, repeat our mistakes, and sometimes fail the people we love the most. Yet within that imperfection lives something remarkable: the persistent belief that tomorrow can be better than today. That belief, fragile and stubborn in equal measure, is perhaps the most human thing about us. It is what separates endurance from mere existence, and it is what makes the human story worth telling.
Light12px
The concept of empathy may be humanity's greatest evolutionary gift. Unlike raw intelligence or physical strength, empathy requires us to step beyond ourselves and inhabit, however briefly, the experience of another person. It is a radical act of imagination, and it is available to every single one of us regardless of education, wealth, or circumstance. When we sit beside someone in grief, we do not take their pain away. But we change its weight. We transform solitary suffering into shared experience, and in doing so, we remind both ourselves and the other person that no one is truly alone. This is not a small thing. Across millennia, it is this instinct toward connection that has allowed human communities to survive famine, war, natural disaster, and the countless private catastrophes that mark an ordinary life. The modern world often celebrates individual achievement. We admire the entrepreneur, the athlete, the self-made success story. But beneath every individual triumph is a network of unseen support: the teacher who believed, the friend who listened, the stranger who offered a moment of unexpected kindness. Human triumph is never truly solitary. It is collective by nature, even when it appears to belong to one person alone. Perhaps the most courageous thing any of us can do is remain open. Open to change, to being wrong, to loving again after heartbreak. The human condition is one of constant uncertainty, and our instinct is often to protect ourselves by closing down. But the people who inspire us most are those who stay open despite everything, who continue to meet the world with curiosity and tenderness. They remind us that the heart, like the body, is designed to heal.
Description

Human Sans is a humanist sans serif years in the making, built from the ground up to serve as a true typographic workhorse. The typeface began as an evolution of an earlier Positype design but was drawn and redrawn, crafted and recrafted until every decision was resolved on its own terms.

Three widths are provided: Standard, Narrow, and Condensed. The Narrow width occupies the practical middle ground where condensed is too tight and standard carries too much horizontal presence. Eight weights from Light to Ultra with matching italics span each width.

Writing system support covers Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Khmer, Lao, and Thai, with all writing systems besides Japanese available in all three widths. The Japanese extension is a fully realized offering: complete JIS X 0208 Level 1 and Level 2 coverage at 6,707 kanji, full hiragana and katakana, halfwidth katakana, vertical typesetting with vert, vrt2, and vkna features, halt and palt for automatic punctuation spacing, proportional kana widths, and contextual half-width spacing. This is not a limited kanji subset or a Latin family with Japanese characters appended to it. It is a complete Japanese typeface built to the same standard that Japanese typographers expect from domestic foundries. The Khmer extension was built with a complete OpenType shaping pipeline. Human Sans is designed to work across languages, not as an afterthought but as a foundational principle.

Supported Languages
347 Supported Languages
ACZAcheron
ACEAchinese
ACHAcholi
ACUAchuar-Shiwiar
AARAfar
AFRAfrikaans
AGRAguaruna
AHTAhtna
AINAinu
GAHAlekano
ALEAleut
ALQAlgonquin
AMCAmahuaca
AMRAmarakaeri
AMIAmis
ANWAnaang
DGLAndaandi
AUDAnuta
NJOAo Naga
APNApinayé
ARGAragonese
AAEArbëreshë Albanian
AATArvanitika Albanian
CNIAsháninka
PRQAshéninka Perené
AIIAssyrian Neo-Aramaic
ASAAsu
TAYAtayal
AWEAwetí
BANBalinese
BJNBanjar
BFABari
BAKBashkir
EUSBasque
BTDBatak Dairi
BTXBatak Karo
BTMBatak Mandailing
BTSBatak Simalungun
BBCBatak Toba
BELBelarusian
BEMBemba
BEZBena
BIKBikol
BINBini
BISBislama
GAXBorana-Arsi-Guji Oromo
BOSBosnian
BREBreton
BUGBuginese
CBUCandoshi-Shapra
COTCaquinte
HNSCaribbean Hindustani
CBRCashibo-Cacataibo
CBSCashinahua
CATCatalan
CEBCebuano
AYRCentral Aymara
CKBCentral Kurdish
CBIChachi
CHAChamorro
CBKChavacano
CICChickasaw
CGGChiga
CSAChiltepec Chinantec
CJKChokwe
CHKChuukese
CIMCimbrian
CONCofán
SWCCongo Swahili
CORCornish
COSCorsican
MUSCreek
CRHCrimean Tatar
HRVCroatian
DANDanish
DHVDehu
NLDDutch
AAQEastern Abnaki
AEREastern Arrernte
HAEEastern Oromo
EFIEfik
EBUEmbu
ENGEnglish
ESEEse Ejja
EPOEsperanto
FAOFaroese
FIJFijian
FILFilipino
FINFinnish
FRAFrench
FURFriulian
GQAGa'anda
GLGGalician
GANGan Chinese
LUGGanda
CABGarifuna
DEUGerman
ALNGheg Albanian
GILGilbertese
GOMGoan Konkani
GNIGooniyandi
GUXGourmanchéma
GCFGuadeloupean Creole French
GUZGusii
HATHaitian
HNIHani
HAWHawaiian
HILHiligaynon
WINHo-Chunk
HOPHopi
HUSHuastec
ISLIcelandic
IDOIdo
ILOIloko
SMNInari Sami
INDIndonesian
IGSInterglossa
INAInterlingua
ILEInterlingue
GLEIrish
ITAItalian
MZIIxcatlán Mazatec
JAMJamaican Creole English
JPNJapanese
JAVJavanese
DYOJola-Fonyi
QUCK'iche'
KEAKabuverdianu
KGPKaingang
MWPKala Lagaw Ya
KALKalaallisut
KLNKalenjin
KAMKamba
KQNKaonde
CAKKaqchikel
KRLKarelian
CSBKashubian
KEKKekchí
XNZKenzi
KHAKhasi
KIKKikuyu
KMBKimbundu
KINKinyarwanda
KTUKituba
KONKongo
KOOKonzo
KUAKuanyama
FKVKven Finnish
KSHKölsch
LLDLadin
LADLadino
LTGLatgalian
LATLatin
LIJLigurian
LITLithuanian
LMOLombard
NDSLow German
DSBLower Sorbian
LOZLozi
LUALuba-Lulua
SMJLule Sami
LUOLuo
LTZLuxembourgish
VMWMakhuwa
MGHMakhuwa-Meetto
KDEMakonde
YMKMakwe
MLGMalagasy
ZLMMalay
MLTMaltese
MNKMandinka
MFVMandjak
KNFMankanya
GLVManx
SWBMaore Comorian
MRIMaori
ARNMapudungun
MCFMatsés
ULKMeriam Mir
MERMeru
OTEMezquital Otomi
XRGMinang
MINMinangkabau
MWLMirandese
MOHMohawk
CNRMontenegrin
MFEMorisyen
UMUMunsee
MWFMurrinh-Patha
TTTMuslim Tat
WMWMwani
MIQMískito
NAGNaga Pidgin
NDONdonga
NAPNeapolitan
ZDJNgazidja Comorian
NIUNiuean
FIANobiin
NOTNomatsiguenga
AZJNorth Azerbaijani
MRQNorth Marquesan
NDENorth Ndebele
KMRNorthern Kurdish
HEANorthern Qiandong Miao
SMENorthern Sami
UZNNorthern Uzbek
OJBNorthwestern Ojibwa
NORNorwegian
NOVNovial
NYANyanja
NYNNyankole
OCIOccitan
CHJOjitlán Chinantec
ORCOrma
ORHOroqen
OSSOssetian
LOTOtuho
PAUPalauan
PLZPaluan
PAMPampanga
TOPPapantla Totonac
PAPPapiamento
NSOPedi
PCDPicard
CPUPichis Ashéninka
PMSPiemontese
PISPijin
PIUPintupi-Luritja
PPLPipil
SJEPite Sami
PONPohnpeian
POLPolish
PORPortuguese
POTPotawatomi
TSZPurepecha
PBBPáez
QUEQuechua
RARRarotongan
ROHRomansh
ROORotokas
RUNRundi
RWKRwa
SAQSamburu
SMOSamoan
SAGSango
SBPSangu
SRMSaramaccan
SRDSardinian
SCOScots
GLAScottish Gaelic
SEYSecoya
SEHSena
SRPSerbian
SEISeri
CRSSeselwa Creole French
KSBShambala
SJWShawnee
SHPShipibo-Conibo
SNAShona
JIVShuar
SCNSicilian
SZLSilesian
SLKSlovak
SLVSlovenian
XOGSoga
SOMSomali
SNKSoninke
AZBSouth Azerbaijani
MQMSouth Marquesan
NBLSouth Ndebele
AYCSouthern Aymara
HMSSouthern Qiandong Miao
SMASouthern Sami
SOTSouthern Sotho
SPASpanish
SRNSranan Tongo
EKKStandard Estonian
LVSStandard Latvian
ZSMStandard Malay
SUNSundanese
SWHSwahili
SSWSwati
SWESwedish
GSWSwiss German
TGLTagalog
TAHTahitian
DAVTaita
TLYTalysh
CTDTedim Chin
TEOTeso
TETTetum
TDTTetun Dili
TIVTiv
TLITlingit
TOBToba
TOJTojolabal
TPITok Pisin
TKLTokelau
TOKToki Pona
TONTonga
TOITonga
ALSTosk Albanian
MTOTotontepec Mixe
TKRTsakhur
TSOTsonga
TSNTswana
TUMTumbuka
TURTurkish
TUKTurkmen
TZHTzeltal
TZOTzotzil
AOZUab Meto
UIGUighur
UMBUmbundu
SJUUme Sami
POVUpper Guinea Crioulo
HSBUpper Sorbian
VECVenetian
VEPVeps
VIEVietnamese
VOLVolapük
VROVõro
WLSWallisian
WLNWalloon
WAEWalser
WYBWangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa
AUCWaorani
WARWaray
WBPWarlpiri
GUCWayuu
CYMWelsh
GAZWest Central Oromo
ABEWestern Abnaki
FRYWestern Frisian
WIMWik-Mungkan
WRHWiradjuri
WOLWolof
XAVXavánte
XHOXhosa
AMEYanesha'
YAOYao
YAPYapese
YIJYindjibarndi
YUAYucateco
ZULZulu
ZUNZuni
ZROZáparo
Language support is predicted based on codepoint coverage and not guaranteed to be accurate.
Glyphs
Medium
U+0041 / A
Outlines
700CH
516XH
0BL
Latin Uppercase26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Latin Lowercase26
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
Latin Uppercase Accented151
À
Á
Â
Ã
Ä
Å
Ā
Ă
Ą
Ǻ
Æ
Ǽ
Ç
Ć
Ĉ
Ċ
Č
Ď
Đ
Ð
È
É
Ê
Ë
Ē
Ĕ
Ė
Ę
Ě
Ə
Ĝ
Ğ
Ġ
Ģ
Ĥ
Ħ
Ì
Í
Î
Ï
Ĩ
Ī
Ĭ
Į
İ
IJ
Ĵ
Ķ
Ĺ
Ļ
Ľ
Ł
Ŀ
Ñ
Ń
Ņ
Ň
Ŋ
Ò
Ó
Ô
Õ
Ö
Ō
Ŏ
Ő
Ơ
Ø
Ǿ
Œ
Ŕ
Ŗ
Ř
Ś
Ŝ
Ş
Š
Ș
Ţ
Ť
Ŧ
Ù
Ú
Û
Ü
Ũ
Ū
Ŭ
Ů
Ű
Ų
Ư
Ŵ
Ý
Ŷ
Ÿ
Ź
Ż
Ž
Þ
Latin Lowercase Accented154
à
á
â
ã
ä
å
ā
ă
ą
ǻ
æ
ǽ
ç
ć
ĉ
ċ
č
ď
đ
ð
è
é
ê
ë
ē
ĕ
ė
ę
ě
ế
ə
ƒ
ĝ
ğ
ġ
ģ
ĥ
ħ
ì
í
î
ï
ĩ
ī
ĭ
į
ı
ij
ĵ
ȷ
ķ
ĺ
ļ
ľ
ł
ŀ
ñ
ń
ņ
ň
ŋ
ò
ó
ô
õ
ö
ō
ŏ
ő
ơ
ø
ǿ
œ
ĸ
ŕ
ŗ
ř
ś
ŝ
ş
š
ș
ß
ţ
ť
ŧ
ù
ú
û
ü
ũ
ū
ŭ
ů
ű
ų
ư
ŵ
ý
ÿ
ŷ
ź
ż
ž
þ
Numerals10
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Currency14
$
¢
£
¤
¥
฿
Fractions7
¼
½
¾
Punctuation & Symbols74
!
"
#
%
&
'
(
)
*
+
,
-
.
/
:
;
<
=
>
?
@
[
\
]
^
_
`
{
|
}
~
¡
¦
§
©
ª
«
¬
®
°
±
²
³
·
¹
º
»
¿
Mathematical Symbols24
×
÷
Superscript & Subscript17
Geometric Shapes & Misc26
Greek Accented2
;
·
CJK Punctuation & Symbols2
Alternates1
Denominators10
Numerators10
Ordinals10
This typeface contains a total of 568 glyphs
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