Pivot Sans

Open source · Version 1.100

Turn toward
clarity.

Pivot Sans is a practical, people-first variable typeface made for interfaces, documents, and the moments when the numbers really matter.

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Free for personal and commercial use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

One axis. Two styles. Five currencies.

≠ ≤ ≥ ≈ ‰

Live variable playground

Find your bearing.

Every control below changes the real font in your browser. No rendered stand-ins.

450
76 px
−2%
Style
OpenType features
Try

Money moves. Meaning stays.

The full range

Seven useful stops.
Every point in between.

The wght axis runs continuously from 300 to 700. The release also includes ready-made custom pins at 450 and 550.

300Light

Readable by design.

Readable by design.

400Regular

Readable by design.

Readable by design.

450Custom pin

Readable by design.

Readable by design.

500Medium

Readable by design.

Readable by design.

550Custom pin

Readable by design.

Readable by design.

600Semibold

Readable by design.

Readable by design.

700Bold

Readable by design.

Readable by design.

Small details. Real consequences.

Typography that keeps its promises.

Pivot Sans keeps the warmth and legibility of Inclusive Sans, then adds the production details a dependable family should have: aligned money, complete everyday relations, selective web delivery, and tests that prove the outputs match the intent.

01 / Money grid

Five currencies.
One shared rhythm.

Turn on tnum and all ten digits plus $ £ ¥ ₹ € share a single slot at each weight. The wider euro is included deliberately—no locale gets the odd column.

Quarterly ledger FY 2026
Americas$12,840.00
Britain£12,840.00
Japan¥12,840.00
India₹12,840.00
Eurozone€12,840.00
Heavy proof$77,777.77

The bold dollar keeps its weight-specific construction under tnum.

02 / Useful relations

The signs you reach for are already here.

Pivot Sans adds encoded, weight-aware composites for not equal, less than or equal, greater than or equal, almost equal, and per mille. They are made from native design parts, so they belong at every point on the axis.

‰
U+2030
≈
U+2248
≠
U+2260
≤
U+2264
≥
U+2265

03 / Reading alternates

A different way to read and .

The inherited ss01 stylistic set offers single-storey forms for a and g, including their accented forms. Choose the shapes that work best for your readers and context.

Default

ag

navigation · language
ss01

ag

navigation · language

Locale-targeted delivery

Send only what the page needs.

Explicit, disjoint Unicode ranges let browsers fetch the core first, then add extended Latin or Vietnamese only when the text asks for it.

LATIN CORE ≈ 34–36 KiB

Clear type. Honest numbers. Useful symbols ≠ extra noise.

LATIN EXTENDED + 16–17 KiB

Zażółć gęślą jaźń · Příliš žluťoučký kůň

VIETNAMESE + 8 KiB

Tiếng Việt rõ ràng, thân thiện và dễ đọc.

Sizes shown are per style and rounded. Upright and italic are sliced separately; the browser chooses by both text and style.

Put it to work

Two lines to start.
A whole axis to explore.

The release includes full variable fonts, ten standard static styles, 450/550 custom pins, and locale-sliced webfonts.

01

Load the sliced webfonts

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/pivot-sans-subsets.css">
02

Set the family and axis

.account-total {
  font-family: "Pivot Sans", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 550;
  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}

Variable desktop

Install the two variable TTFs for continuous weight control from 300 through 700.

Static desktop

Prefer fixed styles? Install the ten named weights or only the custom 450/550 pins you need.

Web

Use WOFF2 in browsers. Keep the supplied folder structure so every CSS URL resolves as written.

Desktop note: do not install overlapping variable, standard static, and pin sets at once; font managers can treat matching family positions as duplicates.

Measured, not assumed

A font you can audit.

Pivot Sans is rebuilt from checksum-locked Inclusive Sans 2.004 inputs. Its pipeline verifies unchanged upstream outlines and layout, exercises every integer weight on the variable axis, sanitizes the output, and emits deterministic release checksums.

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A permanent fork with a clear lineage

Carry the good work forward.

Pivot Sans begins with Inclusive Sans 2.004—an approachable typeface designed for legibility and ease—and takes responsibility for its own production future.

Pivot Sans is authored and maintained by Beacon Bay Technologies, Inc. The original Inclusive Sans design is by Olivia King and remains credited to the Inclusive Sans Project Authors. That lineage is preserved in the fonts, documentation, and source history.

Released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, Pivot Sans can be used, studied, modified, and shared. Good type should be dependable—and available.

Pivot Sans 1.100

Take the whole family.

Variable, static, pinned, and webfont builds. Source pipeline, license, documentation, specimen, tests, and checksums included.

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SIL Open Font License 1.1 · Free for personal and commercial use