Sorkin Type
Sorkin Type is credited on 13 families in the library. The first was added in 2011 and the latest in 2025. By class: five display faces, five sans serifs, two serifs, one handwriting face. Three are variable fonts. The most frequent co-credit is Eben Sorkin, on 3 families.
The familiesIn order of addition, each name set in its own outlines
MerriweatherSerif · 2011 · weights 300–900
LimelightDisplay · 2011 · weights 400
PlasterDisplay · 2011 · weights 400
InderSans serif · 2011 · weights 400
Autour OneDisplay · 2012 · weights 400
Fjalla OneSans serif · 2012 · weights 400Denk OneSans serif · 2012 · weights 400
Merriweather SansSans serif · 2013 · weights 300–800
DekkoHandwriting · 2015 · weights 400
AsarSerif · 2015 · weights 400
CalistogaDisplay · 2019 · weights 400
AgbalumoDisplay · 2023 · weights 400
MenbereSans serif · 2025 · weights 100–700
Range of the work
The lowercase runs from Dekko, the shortest at 447 units per 1,000 em, to Fjalla One at 672. In width, Dekko is the narrowest (418) and Plaster the widest (740). Beyond Latin, the families cover five subsets: Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Vietnamese. Measured against the medians of their own classes, ten of the 13 families with ascenders have a taller x-height, nine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fjalla One | Sans serif | +154 | −88 | +17 pts | 400 | 4 |
| Autour One | Display | +95 | +170 | −3 pts | 400 | 2 |
| Merriweather | Serif | +73 | +46 | +4 pts | 300–900 + italic | 5 |
| Denk One | Sans serif | +68 | −37 | +21 pts | 400 | 4 |
| Menbere | Sans serif | +51 | +26 | +5 pts | 100–700 | 4 |
| Merriweather Sans | Sans serif | +38 | +25 | +8 pts | 300–800 + italic | 4 |
| Calistoga | Display | +24 | +18 | +18 pts | 400 | 3 |
| Limelight | Display | +23 | +104 | +8 pts | 400 | 2 |
| Agbalumo | Display | +2 | +23 | +17 pts | 400 | 5 |
| Dekko | Handwriting | +2 | ±0 | −2 pts | 400 | 3 |
| Plaster | Display | −9 | +234 | +23 pts | 400 | 2 |
| Inder | Sans serif | −15 | +1 | +3 pts | 400 | 2 |
| Asar | Serif | −24 | −48 | +4 pts | 400 | 3 |