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Words Are Made
Up of Lines

Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

It is available as a 5-axis variable font as well as a collection of static fonts.

One of my first relationships with words started in elementary school. We did spelling tests every week, I never passed them and had to sit in detention. Despite my fear of tests, I loved words–I knew they helped me express my feelings and made me feel better.

I later discovered I was dyslexic and recently, I thought, ‘What if I take my words and make a font that is playful, professional, accessible and open?’ I was inspired by Comic Sans because I have always liked how fun and easy it is to read, especially for me as a dyslexic.

— Shantell Martin

Shantell Sans is free and open-source, licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1, so you can use it in almost any way you can imagine! Read the Shantell Sans license for details. It includes Latin and Cyrillic characters to support a wide array of languages throughout the Americas, Europe, Central Asia, and Vietnam.

Project conception & creative direction by Shantell Martin, based on her artwork, handwriting, and creative philosophy.

Type design & font development by ArrowType.

Cyrillic design by Anya Danilova.

Additional support from Google Fonts.

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Variable
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Weight (300 to 800) wght

You know it and love it, and now it’s variable! Weight adjusts the overall thickness of the strokes in letterforms. Useful for establishing typographic hierarchy and much more.

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Italic (0 to 1) ital

Adjusts letters from upright to sloped. Glyphs keep the same overall shapes, but are redrawn to keep good curves and monolinear strokes. Useful to provide emphasis in typography.

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Informality (0 to 100) INFM

Adjusts glyph shapes from normalized proportions (with consistent heights and proportions for everyday typography) to irregular shaping and sizing (more like handwriting).

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Bounce (-100 to 100) BNCE

Translates glyphs along their Y axis to provide a “bouncy” look. Set to a default of 0, this gives a regular baseline. Animated between -100 and +100, this gives a wavy look.

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Spacing (0 to 100) SPAC

Adds extra spacing between letters (AKA "letter-spacing" or “tracking”). Useful for animations and for adding tracking in software which doesn’t provide built-in support for it.

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