Typeface · Sans-serif
Charlotte Sans
Charlotte Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Michael Gills in 1992 as part of a larger family called Charlotte, which includes a related serif text face.
About Charlotte Sans
Charlotte Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Michael Gills in 1992 as part of a larger family called Charlotte, which includes a related serif text face. The face was designed for Letraset. Charlotte Sans bears comparison with Eric Gill's 1927 face Gill Sans, sharing several humanist sans-serif characteristics: a double-storey roman a and g, and a single-storey lowercase italic a. Charlotte Sans has a tapered glyphic stroke in the t. Terminals in vertical strokes are not parallel to the baseline but instead cut at an angle. Similarities can be seen with Syntax and FF Scala Sans. The overall stroke width is varied, and rhythmic is seen especially in the serif version of the face, which was inspired by the types of 18th-century punch-cutter Pierre-Simon Fournier.
From the Wikipedia article “Charlotte Sans”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Charlotte Sans in a book
Sans-serif faces work well for headings, captions, children's books and modern nonfiction. For long-form body text in print, most designers still prefer a serif.
Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q2625487 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).