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PolySans specimen from Gradient

A grotesque sans with soft inktraps and wilfully exaggerated italics, available across proportional, monospaced and wide cuts with Arabic and Hebrew extensions.

About

Built on mid-20th-century grotesque proportions, PolySans introduces soft-edged inktraps that quietly disrupt an otherwise steady rhythm. The italics take a different path entirely, stretching and exaggerating to the point of resembling a script serif before pulling back. Six weights run across Latin, Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, each script given equal design attention rather than treated as an afterthought.

Classification

A mid-20th-century grotesque with soft-edged inktraps and exaggerated italics that flirt with script forms. The upright cuts maintain classic grotesque proportions while the italics stretch beyond typical oblique conventions.

Weights

SlimNeutralRelaxMedianInkyBulky

Optical sizes and widths

standardwide

Family

PolySans ArabicPolySans Hebrew

Languages

LatinVietnameseCyrillicGreekArabicHebrew

Tags

grotesqueinktrapsmultiscripteditorialexpressivemid-centurywidemonospaced