Besign Foundry announces Neutral Sans, a new open-source sans-serif typeface.
FOUNDRY
2024 / 10 / 24
Neutral Sans is renowned for its smooth and graceful curves, incorporating elements of humanistic serif fonts, adding vitality and warmth to the typeface.
Besign Foundry today announced their new experimental font project, Neutral Sans. With its elegant and full curves, higher lowercase height brings excellent readability and a richer visual experience to the text, providing designers with a new option when choosing Neo-Grotesk sans-serif fonts.
Neutral Sans is renowned for its smooth and elegant curve design, incorporating humanist serif elements to give the font more vitality and warmth. Compared with traditional modern sans-serif fonts, Neutral Sans has fuller bowls and a more natural curve treatment, avoiding overly mechanized coldness. Its relatively high lowercase letters significantly enhance readability, making it clearly recognizable even in smaller text practical scenarios. Whether in detail or overall structure, Neutral Sans emphasizes a comfortable visual feeling and reading experience.
Due to its beautifully full curve details, Neutral Sans is particularly suitable for large-size displays of short texts. It performs excellently in scenarios such as title design, brand identity, and slogans, which require a strong visual impact. Designers can easily create both modern and vibrant visual effects with it, meeting diverse creative needs and scenarios.
Neutral Sans meets the usage needs of most Latin and Germanic regions worldwide. It supports multiple languages such as English, French, German, Esperanto, and includes Pinyin, covering a wide range of Latin alphabet sets across Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, and Oceania.
Starting today, Neutral Sans will be available for download from GitHub with its first version. The initial release will offer the Display Regular weight. Although long text typesetting scenarios were considered during the initial design phase, the first batch of Neutral Sans will be geared towards display scenarios like titles and short texts. Besign Type Foundry places hopes on creators, designers, and developers, expecting them to explore Neutral Sans' application scenarios in different fields.
Besign Foundry will continuously collect feedback to optimize the basic typeface design. From 2025, different weights and styles of Neutral will gradually be made available through updates.
Besign Foundry is committed to providing high-quality, forward-thinking font and logo design for the global design community, continually injecting fresh creative vitality into design.
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