**Work Sans was made in part on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nations. I pay my respect to their elders, past, present and future. Sovereignty has never been ceded.**
If you have used Work Sans please consider supporting and donating to the following list of Indigenous organisations and funds:
* [COVID-19 Victorian First Nations Mutual Aid Fund](https://chuffed.org/project/covid-19-first-nations-fund)
* [Help Aboriginal Communities Prepare for COVID-19](https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-first-nations-communities-prevent-covid19)
Work Sans has been updated between 2018–2020 with accompanying italics, variable font files and the character set has been expanded to the [Google Latin Expert glyph set](https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/tree/master/Lib/gftools/encodings), which will now support Vietnamese along with these additional languages:
Completed in November 2018, with contributions from [CrystalType](https://github.com/crystaltype) (Vietnamese), [Dennis Grauel](https://dennisgrauel.com/) and [Kia Tasbihgou](http://www.kiatas.me/) (production), and [Stephen Nixon](http://www.thundernixon.com/) (for valuable assistance on variable font workflows)
Work Sans is a 9 weight typeface family based loosely on early Grotesques — i.e. [Stephenson Blake](https://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/14444337254/), [Miller & Richard](https://archive.org/stream/printingtypespec00millrich#page/226/mode/2up/) and [Bauerschen Giesserei](https://archive.org/stream/hauptprobeingedr00baue#page/109/mode/1up). The core of the fonts are optimised for on-screen medium-sized text usage (14px-48px) – but still can be used in print well. The fonts at the extreme weights are designed more for display use. Overall, features are simplified and optimised for screen resolutions – for example, diacritic marks are larger than how they would be in print.
The fonts under **/fonts/static/TTF**, **/fonts/static/WOFF**, **/fonts/static/WOFF2** contain formats for web use. They have been autohinted with ttfautohint.
The project started in June 2014 and the brief was to have a [minimum viable product](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product) (alpha release with 9 weights) by December 2014. Work Sans was first available on Google fonts in July 2015. Work Sans was updated between 2018–2020 with Italics and an expanded character set.
Mathieu Cannavo, Vincent Chan, Greg Gazdowicz, Jack Jennings, Seb McLauchlan, Dan Milne, Scott Rankin, Dan Reynolds, David Jonathan Ross, Adam Twardoch, David Wise.
Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.
If you particularly want to build fonts manually on your own computer, you will need to install the [`yq` utility](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq). On OS X with Homebrew, type `brew install yq`; on Linux, try `snap install yq`; if all else fails, try the instructions on the linked page.
Then:
*`make build` will produce font files.
*`make test` will run [FontBakery](https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery)'s quality assurance tests.
This font repository structure is inspired by [Unified Font Repository](https://github.com/googlefonts/Unified-Font-Repository), modified for the Google Fonts workflow.
