We designed Officer Sans to exacting standards so that the fonts work perfectly and seamlessly with modern office apps like MS Office, Excel, Pages, and Numbers. That means ensuring seamless functionality with features like Style Linking in MS Office, embedding the fonts within your documents, and optimizing or hinting all the fonts for optimal rendering on screen.

Officer Sans is remarkably versatile. Not only does it perform exceptionally in office environments, but excels at countless other typographic challenges, including remarkable performance on the web, in apps, and for server usage.

The design of Officer Sans was not driven by whims or uncompromising ideas about what might be cool, or by the latest design fads. We had high ambitions for Officer Sans: Not only did it have to look great, but more than anything it had to be about functionality. It had to be a typeface expansive and versatile enough to meet — and even exceed — all of the numerous and complex requirements demanded by the office environment. Officer Sans is a professionally crafted workhorse that excels in and out of the office — it’s just as happy in office apps as it is performing on the web or as a modern corporate typeface.

Changing your office fonts shouldn’t be too much of a shock either for users or readers. That’s why, when designing Officer Sans, we kept an eye on the dimensions of Arial and Helvetica. By maintaining similar basic measures for cap height, x-height letter width, and thus text length, you can now switch to Officer Sans from an old default like Arial, for example, and you won’t need to rethink or redesign all of your documents and templates. The transition to Officer Sans will be smooth and painless.

Arial and Helvetica have the exact same proportions and letter widths. Their story is an interesting one but is told elsewhere. With Officer Sans, we went back to the drawing board, starting from scratch, while keeping a design corridor open to ensure that existing Arial users could upgrade to Officer Sans with ease. Arial and Helvetica have Arial and Helvetica have the exact same proportions and letter widths. Their story is an interesting one but is told elsewhere. With Officer Sans, we went back to the drawing board, starting from scratch, while keeping a design corridor open to ensure that existing Arial users could upgrade to Officer Sans with ease. Arial and Helvetica have very tight spacing, and this was the key to our solution. By making our letterforms just a little narrower, we not only maintained comparable line-length or text-flows but we introduced much-needed light and space into the design, which, as a bonus, improves legibility and overall readability.

Letters constructed with an open architecture are easier to read. When a letter like c or e, for example, is constructed too narrow, it is easily confused with a lowercase o, especially at smaller sizes. Wider openings make for better letter differentiation, less confusion, and a more comfortable reading rhythm.

Legibility in the office environment is crucial, with mistakes costly and embarrassing. Certain characters in the Latin alphabet are sometimes difficult to tell apart. The Il1 test ensures that three characters — sometimes similar or even identical in some fonts — are easily distinguishable. Officer Sans passes the test with flying colors.

Officer Sans’ generous x-height makes it legible even at very small sizes, so that even paratextual elements like footnotes, sidenotes and tiny captions can be read easily.

Besides the 4 basic styles (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) which are free for personal use, the commercial Officer Sans family consists of 24 Styles. A large type family is able to solve all kinds of typographic challenges. From multiple widths and weights we have you covered. From a light touch to bold for emphasis or that super-heavy and hard-hitting Black weight, whatever you need, Officer Sans is prepared for every eventuality.

DIN SPEC 91379 is a German standard that specifies the characters and standards for representing names and other text data in electronic systems within the EU. It is designed to promote accessibility, consistency and compatibility while transmitting data between various systems and applications to prevent errors and misunderstandings. DIN SPEC 91379 also covers some non-European languages that use Latin script, like Vietnamese, for example. Officer Sans fonts are DIN SPEC 91379-compliant. In addition to its extended Latin character set, supporting the most common Latin-based languages, Officer Sans also comes with support for Greek and Cyrillic, helping your company on the international stage.