Cresard Sans · our own · free under the OFL
Cresard Sans is our own cut of Inter: nine weights, matching italics and a variable font, with the round bowls squared a little and every sharp corner softened. The spacing, the kerning and the width of every glyph are Inter's unchanged, so it drops into work already designed around Inter. The name is ours; the software is licensed to everyone.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
A quotation, an agreement, an invoice, a receipt.
one file · roman · 543 KB
Every weight was cut from the same plan, so Thin and Black share their curves rather than merely resembling each other. What follows is the font itself, not a picture of it.
Character set
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~₹ € £ $ ¥ ° © ® ™ § ¶ † ‡ • –—―
The whole of Inter 4.1's repertoire: Latin, Latin Extended, Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese, with 2,937 glyphs in every file.
Two files carry the whole 100 to 900 range, a roman and an italic. Move the slider and the browser interpolates the real outlines, in the same bytes the download link points at.
Cresard Sans keeps Inter's spacing, so a paragraph set in it takes up exactly the space it would in Inter.
Variable, roman
CresardSansVariable
Variable, italic
CresardSansVariableItalic
There is no optical size axis and no Display cut. Inter has one; Cresard Sans is tuned for text at interface sizes and dropping it keeps this file at 543 KB.
Three outline operations are the whole difference from Inter and every one of them is applied to all nine weights by the same plan.
The round forms are mapped onto a superellipse with an exponent of 2.7, against a circle’s 2.0. The sides flatten and the shoulders square off while the terminals stay soft. It reaches o O 0 8 b d p q g e c C G Q 6 9, their accented variants and nothing accidental.
Every join between two straight segments that turns 38 degrees or more takes a quadratic fillet of radius 34 units, about 1.7% of the em, clamped so it can never eat more than 32% of the segment beside it. Stem ends, apices and bar ends soften by one rule.
The dots of i j ! ? . : ; and the dots inside the diacritics become rounded squares: 93% of the drawn size, with a corner radius of 30% of the side.
A fillet that fits one weight can break another, so the exact set of corners is decided once on Regular and replayed by index on the other eight. Thin to Black gain the same points in the same order, which is what keeps the variable font valid.
Advance widths, sidebearings and kerning; the vertical metrics; the glyph repertoire; every OpenType feature; and Inter's interpolation-compatible point order. Cresard Sans is a different curve language on the same skeleton, so anything already designed around Inter keeps its measurements.
Two formats for each of the eighteen static styles and two for each variable face. Every link is served from desk.cresard.com and streamed from our public release repository, so nothing here waits on somebody else's server.
The whole repository at v1.000: every font file below, the build scripts, the design notes, the interactive specimen and the ready-made stylesheet.
| Weight | Roman | Italic |
|---|---|---|
| Thin100 | ||
| ExtraLight200 | ||
| Light300 | ||
| Regular400 | ||
| Medium500 | ||
| SemiBold600 | ||
| Bold700 | ||
| ExtraBold800 | ||
| Black900 |
TTF installs into your system and is what most desktop software wants. WOFF2 is for the web. Both copyright notices live in every file's name table and the licence travels with the download.
Either install the statics like any other font, or point two @font-face rules at the variable files and let the browser do the work.
These rules are the whole setup and this page runs exactly them: the samples above are rendered from /fonts/download/CresardSansVariable.woff2 on this origin. Point at the per-weight WOFF2 files instead if you would rather not use a variable font.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Cresard Sans Variable';
src: url('https://desk.cresard.com/fonts/download/CresardSansVariable.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Cresard Sans Variable';
src: url('https://desk.cresard.com/fonts/download/CresardSansVariableItalic.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: italic;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Cresard Sans Variable', system-ui, sans-serif;
}Cresard Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. It is both the licence we have to pass on, because the family is a modified version of an open font and the one we would have chosen anyway.
What Cresard owns is the name, the wordmark and the modifications described above. What everyone owns is the software. Those two sentences are both true and that is the ordinary arrangement for a company typeface built on an open one.
Copyright, in every file
Copyright (c) 2026 Cresard (https://cresard.com). Copyright (c) 2016 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter).