Sweet Sans Pro™

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What is the Sweet Sans Pro™ font?

The engraver’s sans serif—strikingly similar to drafting alphabets of the early 1900s—has been one of the most widely used stationer’s lettering styles since about 1900. Its open, simple forms offer legibility at very small sizes. While there are digital fonts based on this style (such as Burin Sans™ and Sackers Gothic™, among others), few offer the range of styles and weights possible, with the versatility designers perhaps expect from digital type families. Sweet Sans fills that void. More…
The family is based on antique engraver’s lettering templates called “masterplates.” Professional stationers use a pantograph to manually transfer letters from these masterplates to a piece of copper or steel that is then etched to serve as a plate or die. This demanding technique is rare today given that most engravers now use a photographic process to make plates, where just about any font will do. But the lettering styles engravers popularized during the first half of the twentieth century—especially the engraver’s sans—are still quite familiar and appealing.
Referencing various masterplates—which typically offer the alphabet, figures, an ampersand, and little else—Mark van Bronkhorst has drawn a comprehensive toolkit of nine weights, each offering upper- and lowercase forms, small caps, true italics, arbitrary fractions, and various figure sets designed to harmonize with text, small caps, and all-caps. The fonts are available as basic, Standard character sets, and as Pro character sets offering a variety of typographic features and full support for Western and Central European languages.
Though rich in history, Sweet Sans is made for contemporary use. It is a handsome and functional tribute to the spirit of unsung craftsmanship.
Burin Sans and Sackers Gothic are trademarks of Monotype Imaging.

Sweet Sans Pro™ Font families

The Sweet Sans Pro™ includes the following font families:

  • Sweet Sans Pro ExtraLight
  • Sweet Sans Pro ExtraLight Italic
  • Sweet Sans Pro Light
  • Sweet Sans Pro Light Italic
  • Sweet Sans Pro
  • Sweet Sans Pro Italic
  • Sweet Sans Pro Medium
  • Sweet Sans Pro Medium Italic
  • Sweet Sans Pro Bold
  • Sweet Sans Pro Bold Italic
  • Sweet Sans Pro Heavy
  • Sweet Sans Pro Heavy Italic

Sweet Sans Pro™ Preview

Here is a preview of how Sweet Sans Pro™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


Is Sweet Sans Pro™ a free to download font?

I'm afraid not. Sweet Sans Pro™ is not free to download. You will need to pay for it with your hard earn money. Most fonts that we feature on PimpMyFonts.com is a premium font. We do have a Free Fonts category where we showcase all of the best free fonts that you can download. Trust me when I say, don't waste your time searching for a free download of Sweet Sans Pro™. You will not find a link anywhere.

It is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find Sweet Sans Pro™ for free. You might see a few websites that will say "Free Download" of Sweet Sans Pro™ font, but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for Sweet Sans Pro™ remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!

If you really want Sweet Sans Pro™ and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)