Intent Sans
The Intentface typeface. A minor version of TASA Orbiter V1, with a width axis.
Playground
Axes
Three axes, one file.
Weight
wght 300–900- 300 LightAgentic
- 400 RegularAgentic
- 500 MediumAgentic
- 600 SemiBoldAgentic
- 700 BoldAgentic
- 800 ExtraBoldAgentic
- 900 BlackAgentic
Width
wdth 90–125- 90 NarrowNordic
- 100 NormalNordic
- 108 RoomyNordic
- 115 WideNordic
- 125 Extra wideNordic
Width values are design coordinates, not a uniform stretch. Narrow letters and punctuation move less than round ones, and heights never change.
Optical size
opsz 8–60Display 60
Good typography gives ideas room to breathe. A calm, clear voice that feels natural in everyday reading and confident in a headline. Helsinki, 09:41. Päivä alkaa tästä. Åland, Göteborg, Zürich. A price of €48.50, a date, a small but important detail.
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Good typography gives ideas room to breathe. A calm, clear voice that feels natural in everyday reading and confident in a headline. Helsinki, 09:41. Päivä alkaa tästä. Åland, Göteborg, Zürich. A price of €48.50, a date, a small but important detail.
Same size, same weight. Only the optical size differs: the Text cut is lighter and looser, tuned for paragraphs on a dark background.
Figures
Numbers that know where they are.
Tabular by default so columns line up. Proportional when a number sits in a sentence. Footless 1 when a 1 next to an l should stop looking like a fence.
Tabular
tnum0123456789
- 1 101 1 001 11:41
- €48.50 · 09:41 · 2026
- Illinois 11, Ill. 111
Default
Proportional
pnum0123456789
- 1 101 1 001 11:41
- €48.50 · 09:41 · 2026
- Illinois 11, Ill. 111
font-variant-numeric
Footless 1
ss010123456789
- 1 101 1 001 11:41
- €48.50 · 09:41 · 2026
- Illinois 11, Ill. 111
font-feature-settings
Characters
332 glyphs, 306 characters.
Latin coverage for the Nordic and Western European languages the site writes in, plus arrows, a little math, and geometric shapes. Hover or tab through to inspect.
- tnumTabular figures · Default. Equal advances so columns align.
- pnumProportional figures · Natural widths for numbers inside a sentence.
- ss01Footless 1 · Removes the foot of the tabular 1. Keeps its advance.
- ligaStandard ligatures · fi, fl and friends.
- dligDiscretionary ligatures · ff, ffi, ffl.
- caseCase-sensitive forms · Punctuation raised for all-caps settings.
- kernKerning · Inherited pairs plus optical corrections at wider widths.
Typography
Two families, two jobs. Intent Sans for display and body; IBM Plex Mono for utility (subtitles, tag pills, section labels, metadata). Body is Intent Sans Regular — Medium/Semibold are display weights only.
- display-xl72px · 500Intent Sans
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- display-lg48px · 500Intent Sans
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- heading-md24px · 500Intent Sans
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- heading-sm18px · 500Intent Sans
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- body-lg18px · 400Intent Sans
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- body-md16px · 400Intent Sans
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- mono-md14px · 400IBM Plex Mono
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- mono-sm12px · 400IBM Plex Mono
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
- label-sm12px · 400IBM Plex Mono
The future of intelligence will be ambient.
Install
Use it.
- IntentSans-VF.woff2 · 107 KB
Variable WOFF2
For the web. All three axes in one file.
- IntentSans-VF.ttf · 279 KB
Variable TTF
For desktop apps and design tools.
- IntentSans-Static-Styles.zip · 808 KB
42 static styles
Light to Black, Narrow, Normal and Wide, Text and Display.
Keep OFL.txt and NOTICE.txt next to the font when you pass it on. The same files ship inside the brand kit.
@font-face {
font-family: "Intent Sans";
src: url("/fonts/IntentSans-VF.woff2") format("woff2");
font-weight: 300 900;
font-stretch: 90% 125%;
font-display: swap;
}
.headline {
font-family: "Intent Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 500; /* Display Medium */
font-variation-settings: "wdth" 108;
letter-spacing: -0.02em;
}
.body {
font-family: "Intent Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400; /* opsz follows font-size automatically */
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}Credits.
Intent Sans is a derivative of TASA Orbiter V1.001, copyright 2023 Local Remote, designed by Weizhong Zhang, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Font naming has changed to Intent Sans; the original copyright, license, and reserved font name notice travel with the files.
Version 0.111 is an experimental public preview. Light 300 is extrapolated and the widest settings still want optical review.