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Encode Sans

Impallari Type, Andres Torresi, Jacques Le Bailly · Impallari Type · 2020 · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Built as a system rather than a family: weight from 100 to 900 and width from 75 to 125, which between them cover most of what an interface ever asks a sans to do. The drawing is deliberately plain and the apertures are open enough to keep it legible when the width axis pulls it narrow. Where it earns its keep is a dense table, not a headline.

Variable · 127 KB · 1 file

All weights in one file, for Figma, Illustrator, InDesign and the web.

In Word or Canva it installs as Thin (100), not the regular — take the static file below for those.

Static · 2.4 MB · 45 files

One file per weight, works everywhere including older Word and Photoshop.

The license file is inside both zips.

See Encode Sans with Lorem Ipsum

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

Weight — 400

Specification

Designer
Impallari Type, Andres Torresi, Jacques Le Bailly
Foundry
Impallari Type
Released
2020
Category
Sans-serif
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Interfaces, Tables and data, Signage, Headlines
Weights
100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Styles
Normal
Variable
Yes
Glyphs
1,214
Languages
Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese
Download size
127 KB

Size ladder

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64

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40

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24

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

16

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

12

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Encode Sans character map

Uppercase

  • 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

Lowercase

  • 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

Numerals

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Punctuation & symbols

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • !
  • ?
  • '
  • "
  • (
  • )
  • [
  • ]
  • {
  • }
  • /
  • \
  • |
  • -
  • _
  • @
  • #
  • $
  • %
  • &
  • *
  • +
  • =
  • <
  • >
  • ~
  • ^
  • `
  • £
  • ¥
  • ©
  • ®
  • °
  • §

Use Encode Sans on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Encode Sans';
  /* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
     files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
     size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
  src: url('/fonts/encode-sans.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Encode Sans', sans-serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/encode-sans.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Encode Sans', sans-serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly. Encode Sans also covers Türkçe, Vietnamese, and for those you need the download and the self-hosted route.

Encode Sans license

OFL-1.1

You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.

Commercial use allowed

Designed by Impallari Type, Andres Torresi, Jacques Le Bailly

Copyright 2020 The Encode Project Authors (https://github.com/thundernixon/Encode-Sans), with Reserved Font Name \'Encode Sans\'.

Read the full license text · What these licenses mean

The license file is included inside the download.

Questions

Is Encode Sans free for commercial use?
Yes. Encode Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
Can I use Encode Sans in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Encode Sans belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Impallari Type, Andres Torresi, Jacques Le Bailly. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install Encode Sans?
Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Encode Sans is a variable font: the single file carries all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Encode Sans that is Thin (100), not the regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 45 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
Does Encode Sans support Turkish?
Yes. Encode Sans includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
What languages does Encode Sans support?
Yes. Encode Sans covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 1,214 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

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