In designing Ambra Sans, the authors wanted to research the elusive natural signature of handmade humanist letter shapes, in the effort of preserving it while still developing all the capabilities of type as a technical tool in the digital age. Like a frail insect preserved in amber, humanist design is the "ghost in the machine" of this font, that aims at seducing the viewers with its soft, welcoming text flow, firmly opposing the rigid, formal tone of most sans serif fonts. Born to provide a useful tool to graphic designers with branding and editorial needs,
Ambra Sans develops around two subfamilies with slight but fundamental differences. The display family offers a taller x-height, optimizing readability and spacing in headings and display use, while offering a single story lowercase g to provide more consistent branding usage. The text family, on the other side, goes for a smaller x-height to give more traditional proportion to the text and removes the slight tapering in the stems to provide better rendering on screen in small formats.
Both subfamilies of Ambra Sans develop around a wide range of seven weights with corresponding true italics, with Ambra Display sporting an extra heavy weight for maximum versatility. In total the family counts 30 fonts, each with over 600 glyphs for a wide language coverage.
Open type features and glyph alternates further enrich the usage possibility of this typeface that wants to offer contemporary designer an alternative, unexpectedly human approach to contemporary sans type, softly preserving the spirit of handmade calligraphy while encasing its frail nature in a transparent, strong and powerful design language.
Font Family:
· Ambra Sans Light
· Ambra Sans Light Italic
· Ambra Sans Book
· Ambra Sans Book Italic
· Ambra Sans Regular
· Ambra Sans Italic
· Ambra Sans Medium
· Ambra Sans Medium Italic
· Ambra Sans Bold
· Ambra Sans Bold Italic
· Ambra Sans Extrabold
· Ambra Sans Extrabold Italic
· Ambra Sans Black
· Ambra Sans Black Italic
· Ambra Sans Heavy
· Ambra Sans Heavy Italic
· Ambra Sans Text Light
· Ambra Sans Text Light Italic
· Ambra Sans Text Book
· Ambra Sans Text Book Italic
· Ambra Sans Text Regular
· Ambra Sans Text Italic
· Ambra Sans Text Medium
· Ambra Sans Text Medium Italic
· Ambra Sans Text Bold
· Ambra Sans Text Bold Italic
· Ambra Sans Text Extrabold
· Ambra Sans Text Extrabold Italic
· Ambra Sans Text Black
· Ambra Sans Text Black Italic
· Ambra Sans Variable
File Size: 7.78 MB
Supported languages: Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Turkish