Public Sans

A strong, neutral typeface for interfaces, text, and headings. Public Sans is a fork of the SIL Open Licensed face Libre Franklin. Public Sans has many similarities with its parent, but differs enough in its particulars that its effect is distinct. Adjusted vertical metrics. Public Sans is about 2% shorter than Libre Franklin, and has slightly looser default line spacing. Tailed lowercase l. The lowercase l character has a hooked tail for disambiguation. (There is also an optional untailed l.) Regularized stroke weight. Public Sans provides a more regular letterform from the conventional Franklin shape for a cleaner, more consistent letterform, especially at small sizes. Non-rounded vertices. Conventional angled vertices result in a sharper, stronger form. Narrower characters. Public Sans is narrower, especially in rounded characters like lowercase e to help with reading flow, especially in longer texts. Looser letterspacing. Public Sans has relatively loose letterspacing for reading.