The original skeleton was hand-painted in 2008 to help determine and inform my decisions going forward. The typeface was completed shortly afterwards at the behest of an old friend for their identity. As usual, I expanded it, but considered retiring it since there were so many things similar out there. Years later, I had a chance to rediscover it and came to the conclusion that it could be improved, expanded in a logical and useful way, and introduced.
I would be lying if I didn't admit that the rise of webfonts and embedded type in applications influenced many of the decisions I made about reworking Clear Sans. Completely new Text and Screen fonts were developed that utitlize larger x-heights, space-saving widths, logical (and simplified) weight offerings... to name a few alterations. Even the pricing of each variant was considered to produce a more reasonable and simple solution for the developer, designer, professional and novice.
Clear Sans is a departure from my previous sans serifs, but the influences of Aaux Next, Akagi Pro and Halogen are evident.
Enjoy a light-hearted mini-site devoted to Clear Sans
Font Family:
· Clear Sans Screen Light
· Clear Sans Screen Light Italic
· Clear Sans Screen Book
· Clear Sans Screen Book Italic
· Clear Sans Screen Medium
· Clear Sans Screen Medium Italic
· Clear Sans Screen Bold
· Clear Sans Screen Bold Italic
· Clear Sans Screen Black
· Clear Sans Screen Black Italic
Tags: classic, clean, clear, display, flexible, friendly, geometric, legible, modern, rational, sans-serif, sanserif, screen fonts, signage, text fonts, vernacular, versatile, warm