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Sweet Sans Font

Designer: Mark van Bronkhorst
Publisher: Sweet

Sweet Sans was designed by Mark van Bronkhorst and published by Sugary food. Sweet Sans includes 24 designs and family package alternatives. p > The engraver's sans serif-strikingly comparable to drafting alphabets of the early 1900s-has been among the most extensively utilized stationer's lettering styles because about 1900. Its open, easy types use legibility at extremely small sizes. While there are digital typefaces based on this design (such as Burin Sans and Sackers Gothic, among others), few use the series of designs and weights possible, with the flexibility designers possibly expect from digital type households. Sweet Sans fills that void.

The family is based upon antique engraver's lettering templates called "masterplates." Professional stationers use a pantograph to manually transfer letters from these masterplates to a piece of copper or steel that is then etched to work as a plate or die. This requiring method is uncommon today provided that a lot of engravers now use a photographic process to make plates, where almost any font will do. But the lettering styles engravers popularized during the first half of the twentieth century-especially the engraver's sans-are still rather familiar and appealing.

Referencing different masterplates-which usually use the alphabet, figures, an ampersand, and little else-Mark van Bronkhorst has drawn a comprehensive toolkit of 9 weights, each offering upper- and lowercase types, little caps, true italics, approximate portions, and different figure sets designed to balance with text, small caps, and all-caps. The fonts are readily available as basic, Basic character sets, and as Pro character sets providing a variety of typographic functions and complete assistance for Western and Main European languages.

Though abundant in history, Sweet Sans is made for modern use. It is a good-looking and practical homage to the spirit of unsung craftsmanship.