Miranda Sans
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/miranda-sans2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/miranda-sans/wght.css';3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Miranda Sans Variable", sans-serif;
}Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* miranda-sans-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Miranda Sans Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/miranda-sans:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
}Background & Story
Miranda Sans is a contemporary sans serif typeface designed with a clear focus on readability on screens. It is built for text that needs to be read, not noticed, with calm proportions, open shapes, and carefully balanced spacing that holds up across sizes, weights, and long passages of content.
To contribute, see github.com/maxthunberg/miranda-sans.
The design avoids unnecessary stylistic gestures and instead concentrates on clarity, rhythm, and consistency. Each letter is shaped to work as part of a system, supporting words and sentences rather than drawing attention to itself. The result is a typeface that feels stable, neutral, and dependable, particularly in digital environments where legibility matters most.
Miranda Sans was developed with variable font technology in mind, allowing it to adapt smoothly across weights while maintaining a consistent visual voice.
The typeface is named after the designer's favorite person in the world, his sister Miranda. What words sometimes fail to express, letters might.
The family currently includes multiple weights from Regular to Bold, with matching italics, and is designed to perform consistently across both screen and print environments.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/miranda-sansDesigned by
Max Thunberg
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License
OFL-1.1