Sunshine Pro
Zetafonts · Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Solenn Bordeau · 2020
A Clarendon-style slab with an unusual variable contrast axis, where stroke contrast inverts at light weights and intensifies at heavy weights.
About
Originating as part of Zetafonts' Quarantype collection, designed as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, this typeface extends Francesco Canovaro's original Sunshine design. Its defining characteristic is a contrast axis that reverses in the Light weight, flattens near Regular and then climbs sharply through Bold and Heavy. A variable font covers the full weight range, allowing precise positioning across the design space. Available free for personal and commercial use across 108 languages in Latin and Greek scripts.
Classification
Described explicitly as a Clarendon-style font with variable contrast across the weight axis, placing it firmly in the slab serif tradition with its bracketed serifs and modulated stroke contrast.