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Sofia Sans

The library lists Sofia Sans together with three more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. It is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

Outlines drawn from the SofiaSans file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Sofia Sans	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	683	740
Cap height (top of H)	655	702
x-height (top of x)	488	519
Descender (foot of p)	−185	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.74	0.70
Average lowercase width	487	522
Ink coverage, a–z	43.4%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Sofia Sans	Added
Sofia Sans Condensed	lowercase narrower by 109	2022
Sofia Sans Extra Condensed	lowercase narrower by 178	2022
Sofia Sans Semi Condensed	lowercase narrower by 24	2022

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Teko, Exo 2; just above: Anek Bangla, Anek Devanagari; level with: Red Hat Mono, Red Hat Text, Ropa Sans

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Hermeneus One; just above: TikTok Sans, Khula; level with: Barlow

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 1 to 1000.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	1 to 1000	545 families

Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 954 glyphs and 606 mapped Unicode characters; 23 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, case-sensitive forms and two stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

SN Protaller x-height, wider Familjen Grotesktaller x-height, narrower Anek Banglaequal x-height, narrower Anek Devanagariequal x-height, narrower Anek Gujaratiequal x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Faustinataller x-height, narrower Synetaller x-height, wider Frank Ruhl Libreshorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Sofia Sans

Same designer

Ani Petrova is also credited on Pacifico.