Version 1.0 · Open source · SIL OFL 1.1

Makena

A friendly sans-serif family for screens and print. Nine weights, true italics, and a variable font with weight and optical-size axes.

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Thin to Black · Upright & Italic · Variable · 2,849 characters

Nine weights.

From a hairline Thin to a heavy Black, each with a matching italic. The variable font covers every weight in between.

AaThin 100 AaExtraLight 200 AaLight 300 AaRegular 400 AaMedium 500 AaSemiBold 600 AaBold 700 AaExtraBold 800 AaBlack 900

Its own character.

Makena starts from Inter, the workhorse of interface design, and makes a set of friendlier letterforms the default.

aSingle-story a

lTailed l

tCompact t

fCompact f

469Open 4, 6, 9

“”Round quotes

Built for interfaces.

Clear at small sizes, tidy in tables, confident in headlines. Optical sizing tightens the spacing automatically as type gets bigger.

Print queue

Today · 4 jobs

Spring catalog1,469 sheetsPrinting

Postcards, 6×912,000 pcsProof ready

Menu cards240 pcsQueued

Posters, A236 pcsQueued

Sheets printed this week

48,215

+12.4% compared with last week

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Type

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Write your own text and slide through every weight and optical size.

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Glyphs

Browse the character set. Tap any glyph to see it large.

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About

Where Makena comes from, what's different, and the license.

Free to use. Free to share.

Makena is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Use it in personal and commercial work, embed it in apps and websites, modify it, and share it with others.

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Variablewght · opsz
Static styles18
Formats.ttf .woff2
LicenseOFL 1.1