Instrument Sans
Instrument Sans was drawn as a design studio's own brand typeface, which usually produces something unusable by anyone else; this one went the other way and turned out to be a straightforwardly good neo-grotesque. It carries twelve stylistic sets, so common characters can be swapped for alternates in combinations — a way of changing the font's accent without changing the font. Weight and width axes on top of that make it unusually adjustable for a family this recent.
See Instrument Sans in a paragraphCompare with Familjen Grotesk and Golos Text
Instrument Sans at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- Yes · 4 weights
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- Yes
- Italic
- Yes
Alphabets
Style
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Specification
- Designer
- Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Jordan Egstad
- Released
- 2023
- Category
- Sans-serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- User interfaces, Branding, Headlines, Body text
- Weights
- 400, 500, 600, 700
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 501
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 231 KB
Instrument Sans character map
Latin109
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
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- •
- …
Latin Extended165
Western European
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
Central and Eastern European
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ī
- ī
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ť
- ť
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- Ÿ
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
Romanian and other
- Ș
- ș
- Ț
- ț
Türkçe14
- Ç
- ç
- Ğ
- ğ
- I
- ı
- İ
- i
- Ö
- ö
- Ş
- ş
- Ü
- ü
Use Instrument Sans on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Instrument Sans';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put instrument-sans.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/instrument-sans.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400 700;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Instrument Sans', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/instrument-sans.css">body {
font-family: 'Instrument Sans', sans-serif;
}Questions
- Is Instrument Sans free for commercial use?
- Yes. Instrument 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 Instrument Sans in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Instrument 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 Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Jordan Egstad. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Instrument Sans?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files 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. Instrument Sans is a variable font: those files carry all 4 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Instrument Sans that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 24 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Instrument Sans support Turkish?
- Yes. Instrument 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 Instrument Sans support?
- Instrument Sans covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 501 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- What weights does Instrument Sans come in?
- Instrument Sans comes in 4 weights: Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600) and Bold (700). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.
- Where can I download Instrument Sans as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is instrument-sans.woff2, and it is about 93 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.
Instrument 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
- Taken unmodified from Instrument/instrument-sans
- The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
- This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026
Pairs well with Instrument Sans
- Instrument Serif
The same family’s serif, drawn to sit beside Instrument Sans.
See the two side by side - Aleo
A serif to contrast with it — both are sturdy and unsentimental.
See the two side by side
Cite this page
Instrument Sans font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/instrument-sans (updated 2026-09-04)