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 ExtraThin
· Clear Sans ExtraThin Italic
· Clear Sans Thin
· Clear Sans Thin Italic
· Clear Sans ExtraLight
· Clear Sans ExtraLight Italic
· Clear Sans Light
· Clear Sans Light Italic
· Clear Sans Medium
· Clear Sans Medium Italic
· Clear Sans Book
· Clear Sans Book Italic
· Clear Sans SemiBold
· Clear Sans SemiBold Italic
· Clear Sans Bold
· Clear Sans Bold Italic
· Clear Sans Black
· Clear Sans Black Italic
· Clear Sans Ultra
· Clear Sans Ultra Italic
Tags: classic, clean, clear, display, flexible, friendly, geometric, legible, modern, rational, sans-serif, sanserif, screen fonts, signage, text fonts, vernacular, versatile, warm