Spline 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/spline-sans 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/spline-sans/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Spline 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
/* spline-sans-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Spline Sans Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/spline-sans:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Spline Sans is a grotesque sans serif typeface family, purpose-built for UI interfaces, checkout processes, and paragraphs of text. Space efficiency is accomplished by condensing traditional grotesque proportions. The cool and restrained tone is accented with strategic "thorn" traps, which blossom into view when set at larger sizes.
Spline Sans is an original typeface initiated by the Spline Team, and designed by Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović, with project management by Faride Mereb, testing and design feedback by Gonçalo Teixeira, and concept by Alejandro León.
Spline Sans supports an extended Latin glyph set, enabling the typesetting of English, Western, Central and Eastern European languages.
To contribute ideas and feedback, see github.com/SorkinType/SplineSans
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/spline-sans Designed by
Eben Sorkin, Mirko Velimirović
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License
OFL-1.1