Work Sans
Work Sans 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. It sets a wider lowercase than 85% of the 732 sans serifs.
| Measure, per 1,000 em | Work Sans | Median of 732 sans serifs |
|---|---|---|
| Ascender (top of d) | 730 | 740 |
| Cap height (top of H) | 660 | 702 |
| x-height (top of x) | 500 | 519 |
| Descender (foot of p) | −210 | −213 |
| x-height ÷ cap height | 0.76 | 0.70 |
| Average lowercase width | 548 | 522 |
| Ink coverage, a–z | 38.5% | 40.2% |
Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot
X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders
Just below: Akatab, Pontano Sans; just above: Mako, Sour Gummy; level with: Abel, Advent Pro, Akt
Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs
Just below: Merriweather Sans, Secular One; just above: Convergence, Sintony
Weights and styles
One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.
| Axis | Tag | Range | In the library |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | wght | 100 to 900 | 545 families |
Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each
- Latin1,843
- Latin Extended1,525
- Vietnamese532
Inside the file
In the measured file: 1,349 glyphs and 754 mapped Unicode characters; 39 OpenType feature tags.
Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, swashes, slashed zero, case-sensitive forms and six stylistic sets.
Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em
Outside the sans serif class
Same designer
Wei Huang is also credited on Kantumruy Pro, Fragment Mono and Fragment Mono SC.
File: ofl/worksans, google/fonts 9862abc · font software © its authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 · method