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Crafter Sans / A typeface in the making

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Move across the letters to see how they are drawn.

The same gesture. More ways to make something. Meet the curves, characters and voices of Crafter Sans.

text weights
4
characters
233
Cubic master
26

01 / One letter, two sizes

Same drawing. Tuned for where you read it.

Crafter Sans is one typeface. Display is the original drawing, for headlines. Text is derived from it, with adjusted contours and more space so it holds up at 16 and 18 px.

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comunidad

at 18 pxA community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

at 16 pxA community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

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comunidad

at 18 pxA community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

at 16 pxA community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

02 / Try it

What are you creating?

Your words, our curves. Find their size, weight and rhythm.

03 / The family

One voice. A wider range.

Four text weights, with more presence at 16 and 18 px. Bucle Display keeps its original gesture.

Regular

400

A community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

Medium

500

A community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

Semibold

600

A community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

Bold

700

A community turning curiosity into projects. What are you creating?

04 / The loop

Built in the open, one version at a time.

Every release redraws something. The previous build sits in gold under the current one.

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x, y and z get their own masters.

All 26 lowercase letters now come from cubic masters. This is how x, y and z changed in Bold.

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Squares are on-curve nodes, circles are handles. The number is the point count. · Bold

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k, v and w, redrawn.

Cleaner Bold k corners, and a higher k anchor so its accents clear the letter.

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Squares are on-curve nodes, circles are handles. The number is the point count. · Bold

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i, j and l join the masters.

Exact cubic geometry and round endpoint dots, in all four weights.

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Squares are on-curve nodes, circles are handles. The number is the point count. · Bold

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Accents stop crashing into f and t.

The top anchors move up, resolving 63 collisions between f, t and their marks.

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Display finds its gesture.

The second drawing of the original headline cut, the one the whole family grows from.

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05 / Characters

Get to know every curve.

Choose a character and look closer. These are the actual outlines of the selected font.

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Where each character stands

Cubic master · 26Derived from Display · 207Uppercase masters are next.

06 / In context

Made to make things.

A few places where our letters feel at home.

Crafter Station

Craft.
Ship.
Repeat.

Curious people. Shared ideas.

Crafter Open Source

Open code.

Open possibilities.

ElementsPetdexTRX

Crafter Station / Hot Reload

Hot Reload

Coffee, code & community.

Typeface compositions, not event announcements.

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Follow the loop.

Crafter Sans is still being drawn. It is not released for download yet; every new version lands here first.