Eben Sorkin
Eben Sorkin is credited on 13 families in the library. The first was added in 2011 and the latest in 2025. By class: six sans serifs, five display faces, one serif, one handwriting face. Six are variable fonts. The most frequent co-credit is Sorkin Type, on 3 families.
The familiesIn order of addition, each name set in its own outlines
AssetDisplay · 2011 · weights 400
Black Ops OneDisplay · 2011 · weights 400
FrukturDisplay · 2013 · weights 400
CalistogaDisplay · 2019 · weights 400
AlatsiSans serif · 2019 · weights 400
AlataSans serif · 2019 · weights 400
GelasioSerif · 2019 · weights 400–700
VartaSans serif · 2020 · weights 300–700
Spline SansSans serif · 2021 · weights 300–700
Spline Sans MonoSans serif · 2022 · weights 300–700
AgbalumoDisplay · 2023 · weights 400
Briem HandHandwriting · 2024 · weights 100–900
MenbereSans serif · 2025 · weights 100–700
Range of the work
The lowercase runs from Alata, the shortest at 459 units per 1,000 em, to Fruktur at 589. In width, Varta is the narrowest (472) and Asset the widest (1,293). Beyond Latin, the families cover six subsets: Cyrillic Extended, Ethiopic, Greek Extended, Math, Symbols, Vietnamese. Measured against the medians of their own classes, ten of the 13 families with ascenders have a taller x-height, eight of all 13 set a wider lowercase and eleven a darker one.
Against the class medianDifferences from the median of each family’s class, per 1,000 em; ink in percentage points
| Family | Class | x-height | Width | Ink | Weights | Subsets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruktur | Display | +82 | +10 | +24 pts | 400 + italic | 4 |
| Briem Hand | Handwriting | +79 | +116 | +1 pts | 100–900 | 5 |
| Menbere | Sans serif | +51 | +26 | +5 pts | 100–700 | 4 |
| Spline Sans | Sans serif | +27 | ±0 | +3 pts | 300–700 | 2 |
| Spline Sans Mono | Sans serif | +27 | +78 | ±0 pts | 300–700 + italic | 2 |
| Calistoga | Display | +24 | +18 | +18 pts | 400 | 3 |
| Black Ops One | Display | +12 | +106 | +21 pts | 400 | 4 |
| Asset | Display | +4 | +787 | +24 pts | 400 | 5 |
| Gelasio | Serif | +4 | −14 | +3 pts | 400–700 + italic | 3 |
| Agbalumo | Display | +2 | +23 | +17 pts | 400 | 5 |
| Alatsi | Sans serif | −21 | −29 | +17 pts | 400 | 4 |
| Varta | Sans serif | −34 | −50 | −1 pts | 300–700 | 3 |
| Alata | Sans serif | −60 | −10 | +12 pts | 400 | 3 |