Atkinson Hyperlegible

Sans Serif · by Braille Institute, Applied Design Works, Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth, Linus Boman, Theodore Petrosky · 4 styles

Download

AtkinsonHyperlegible.zip · 220 KB · 5 files including OFL.txt

Typography profile

Weights
400 and 700
Italics
Every weight
Scripts
Latin (incl. Extended)
Best for
  • UI labels
  • Aligned tables and figures
Consider alternatives for
  • Hierarchies that need several weights
Characteristics
  • Grotesque
  • Legibility-focused
  • Case-sensitive forms

Styles

32px

  1. Atkinson Hyperlegible Regular 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  2. Atkinson Hyperlegible Regular 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  3. Atkinson Hyperlegible Italic 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  4. Atkinson Hyperlegible Italic 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  5. Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  6. Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  7. Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold Italic 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  8. Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold Italic 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Pairs well with

  • Mono

    B612 Mono

    Another typeface drawn to a legibility brief, this time at a fixed width: codes, reference numbers and aligned columns of digits keep the same unambiguous intent as the Atkinson labels around them.

BPOZZ Design Note

The Braille Institute brief behind it is about telling characters apart: distinctive forms replace ones that are easily confused, which matters most where one misread character changes the meaning, such as reference codes and form fields. It does not relax the size, contrast and spacing minimums that text still has to meet.

BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.

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About Atkinson Hyperlegible

About
Developed for the Braille Institute to improve legibility for readers with low vision. A grotesque at its core, it uses deliberately distinct letterforms so similar characters are harder to confuse.
Designer
Braille Institute, Applied Design Works, Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth, Linus Boman, Theodore Petrosky
Version
1.006
Category
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1

You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).

Copyright 2020 Braille Institute of America, Inc.

Source
Google Fonts

Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository; the WOFF2 files used for the previews on this page are compressed from them. Added to Google Fonts 30 Apr 2021.

Upstream project: github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible.

Available styles
  • Regular 400
  • Italic 400
  • Bold 700
  • Bold Italic 700
Available formats
  • TTF download
  • WOFF2 web preview
Character sets
Latin, Latin Extended