- Heading
- Balsamiq Sans
- Body text
- PT Sans Caption
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Balsamiq Sans
About the font
Balsamiq Sans is a free font by Michael Angeles, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 667 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 72%.
Balsamiq Sans is a display font by Michael Angeles, created as a handwritten typeface for the Balsamiq Wireframes application. It comes in 4 styles with weights 400 and 700, and it is not a variable font. The family contains 1003 glyphs and supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh, including the extra Cyrillic letters the Kazakh language requires. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Michael Angeles
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1003
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- playful
- Design
- rounded
- monoline
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Balsamiq Sans has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 667 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
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- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Mandingo
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Lingala
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Fon
- Waray
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Luba-Katanga
…and 561 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Not included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 979
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 72% of the em
- Version
- 1.020; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b);gftools[0.9.26]
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Balsamiq+Sans
- Designer’s page
- balsamiq.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Balsamiq Sans font free to use?
Yes. Balsamiq Sans is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Balsamiq Sans support Cyrillic?
Yes, Balsamiq Sans includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Balsamiq Sans support?
Balsamiq Sans covers 667 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Balsamiq Sans?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Balsamiq Sans?
Balsamiq Sans was created by Michael Angeles.
What is Balsamiq Sans good for?
Judging by its design, Balsamiq Sans suits: cutting machines and crafts, social media, interfaces, headings.
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