Sans serif · Fábio Duarte Martins
Optician Sans
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CSSfont-family: 'Optician Sans', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Optician Sans is a free sans serif by Fábio Duarte Martins and Simen Schikulski, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Optician Sans has an average x-height, is wider than 91% and, at its regular weight, is of average darkness. Its thickest strokes are 1.1 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Helmet
Optician Sans on one light table with its two closest fonts, Helmet (100 out of 100) and Solitus (78). Helmet is 16% narrower and 17% heavier, with an x-height 11% shorter; Solitus is 64% heavier and 27% narrower, with an x-height 21% shorter.
Optician Sans and Helmet laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Optician SansHelmet…
Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.
02 / Letters
The Optician Sans alphabet
Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400
Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Sizes
Optician Sans at every size
1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words
- 12 px
- 16 px
- 24 px
- 36 px
- 48 px
- 72 px
04 / Facts
Who made Optician Sans, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Fábio Duarte Martins, Simen Schikulski
- Kind
- Sans serif
- Styles
- 1 weight (400)
- From
- GitHub
- Character sets
- latin
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Optician Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Optician Sans comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Optician Sans, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Optician Sans under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Optician Sans, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 50.0% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 50.0% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 1.00lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 60.2% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 41%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.10 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among sans serifs
Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind
x-heightNear the middle of sans serifs
WidthWider than 91% of sans serifs
InkNear the middle of sans serifs
ContrastMore even than 71% of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Optician Sans
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Helmet10016% narrower · x-height 11% shorter · 17% heavier
- Solitus7864% heavier · 27% narrower · x-height 21% shorter
- Genos7328% narrower · x-height 20% shorter · more stroke contrast
- Quilon72more stroke contrast · 31% heavier · 14% narrower
- Gidugu7246% narrower · x-height 36% shorter · 51% heavier
- DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 19367112% wider · x-height 9% shorter
All 100 fonts similar to Optician Sans →Compare side by side →Get Optician Sans on GitHub
07 / Swap
Swap Optician Sans without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
None of the fonts that look most like Optician Sans sets text to its width and x-height: a swap would move lines.
Fallback while it loads
Until Optician Sans loads, this sets Arial in its place at 120.6% of its size, so running text keeps Optician Sans’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Optician Sans Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 120.64%;
ascent-override: 58.02%;
descent-override: 16.58%;
line-gap-override: 8.29%;
}
font-family: 'Optician Sans', 'Optician Sans Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Optician Sans
Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list
Is Optician Sans free for commercial use?
Yes. Optician Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.
How do I download and install Optician Sans?
Optician Sans comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its OpenType-TT folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .
Is Optician Sans in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Optician Sans comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.
How many weights does Optician Sans have?
Optician Sans comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Who designed Optician Sans?
Optician Sans was designed by Fábio Duarte Martins and Simen Schikulski.
What fonts are similar to Optician Sans?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Helmet (100), Solitus (78) and Genos (73), out of 100. Next to Optician Sans, Helmet is 16% narrower and 17% heavier, with an x-height 11% shorter. See all 100 fonts like Optician Sans.