Uncut Sans

Name: Uncut Sans
Author: Kasper Nordkvist

Uncut Sans delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Kasper Nordkvist86% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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TypeSmith curates 7 expert font pairings for Uncut Sans, including combinations with New Athena Unicode, Cursyger and Chelsea Market.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Uncut Sans with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Uncut Sans in Editorial Context

Uncut Sans is a sans serif typeface by Kasper Nordkvist suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Kasper Nordkvist

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Uncut Sans demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Uncut Sans supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Kasper Nordkvist, Uncut Sans balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Uncut Sans Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Uncut Sans Specimen

Uncut Sans

Uncut Sans is a sans serif typeface by Kasper Nordkvist built for display contexts.

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Tagline Pairings

Uncut Sans— sans serif typeface

Uncut SansBy Kasper Nordkvist

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Uncut Sans Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Uncut Sans Used As Body Text

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Uncut Sans, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Uncut Sans demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Uncut Sans for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Uncut Sans small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Uncut Sans delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Uncut Sans italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Uncut Sans bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Uncut Sans typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Uncut Sans typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Uncut Sans'; }

Quick Start

Using Uncut Sans in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Uncut+Sans:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Uncut+Sans:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Uncut Sans';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Uncut+Sans:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Styling with Uncut Sans

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Uncut Sans', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Uncut Sans', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'uncut-sans': ['Uncut Sans', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-uncut-sans">Your text here</p>

About

About Uncut Sans

Kasper Nordkvist

Sans Serif

Open Source

Uncut Sans font is a contemporary grotesk sans-serif designed for straightforward professional typography with honest character. This practical typeface delivers reliable utility through clean grotesk construction, suitable for technology companies, publications, and transparent brand communications. Uncut Sans works effectively for brands emphasizing authenticity and directness. The uncut naming signals unpretentious design philosophy. Particularly suited for honest brand voices. Pairs with complementary straightforward faces.

Uncut Sans was crafted by Kasper Nordkvist. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Uncut Sans features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements.

Uncut Sans is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 7 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Uncut Sans

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Uncut Sans's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Uncut Sans within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 86). Uncut Sans delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

Design Heritage

Designed by Kasper Nordkvist. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Uncut Sans

Uncut Sans embodies the Lineal typeface, anchored in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements. TypeSmith indexes Uncut Sans in a single weight variant and 7 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

7 curated pairings for Uncut Sans

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Typefaces Like Uncut Sans

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Uncut Sans based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Uncut Sans: Accessibility Considerations

Uncut Sans scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Reading Uncut Sans: Legibility Factors

Uncut Sans draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Uncut Sans's Readability

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Uncut Sans

Uncut Sans provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Uncut Sans Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Uncut Sans. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Uncut Sans at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Working with Uncut Sans: Best Practices

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Uncut Sans. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Uncut Sans in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Uncut Sans Language Coverage

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 408 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Uncut Sans Licensing

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Uncut Sans is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Uncut Sans ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'uncut-sans': ['Uncut Sans', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-uncut-sans">Your text here</p>

Uncut Sans

Best Ways to Use Uncut Sans

Best Font Pairings for Uncut Sans

Test Uncut Sans Font Pairings Live

In Context

Uncut Sans Typography

Uncut Sans

Character Set

Type Scale

Uncut Sans Used As Body Text

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Uncut Sans: Accessibility Considerations

Reading Uncut Sans: Legibility Factors

Uncut Sans's Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Uncut Sans

Uncut Sans Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Uncut Sans: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Uncut Sans

Best Ways to Use Uncut Sans

Best Font Pairings for Uncut Sans

Test Uncut Sans Font Pairings Live

In Context

Uncut Sans Typography

Uncut Sans

Character Set

Type Scale

Uncut Sans Used As Body Text

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Uncut Sans: Accessibility Considerations

Reading Uncut Sans: Legibility Factors

Uncut Sans's Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Uncut Sans

Uncut Sans Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Uncut Sans: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference