Aistant

Aistant: A Versatile and Widely Used Font Family

Aistant is a versatile and widely used font designed for a broad range of applications. From detailed user interfaces to marketing and signage, Aistant is one of the world's most popular typefaces. It is used in various fields, including computer interfaces, advertising, airports, NASA instrumentation, and medical equipment.

Benefits

Aistant offers a variety of weights and styles, including Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, and Black, each with corresponding italic versions. The typeface supports a wide range of scripts, including Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, covering 147 scripts in total. Aistant comes with many OpenType features that can be used to tailor functionality and aesthetics to your specific needs. Some of these features include contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures, tabular numbers, fractions, case alternates, compositions, superscript, subscript, scientific inferiors, denominators, numerators, slashed zero, alternate digits, disambiguation, square punctuation, square quotes, round quotes & comma, characters in circles, characters in squares, and character variants.

Use Cases

Aistant is suitable for a wide range of applications. It can be used in user interfaces, marketing materials, signage, and more. The typeface's versatility makes it a popular choice for both digital and print media. Aistant's smaller "text" optical-size designs are ideal for improved legibility of lowercase text, while the larger "display" optical-size designs offer clean lines, smooth curves, and delicate details for excellent rhythm in large text.

Pricing

Aistant is free to use in almost any way imaginable. The font files are distributed globally over CloudFlare’s CDN, ensuring reliable and fast delivery by serving the fonts from a server near your users, minimizing the latency of your web pages.

Vibes

Aistant has been widely praised for its versatility and readability. Users appreciate the wide range of weights and styles available, as well as the extensive support for various scripts. The typeface's open-source nature and the availability of the source design for review and contribution have also been well-received.

Additional Information

Aistant was developed in a private, internal git repository starting in November 2016, prior to being published on August 22, 2017. Between November 2016 and August 2017, there were 2,990,150 line edits made across 247 versions. The typeface has a variable axis for optical size (opsz) ranging from 14 to 32, a variable axis for weight (wght) ranging from 100 to 900, and a constant axis for italic (ital) at 0 to 9.4 degrees. The style classification is Sans-serif, Grotesk, with an x-height of 1118 UPM at opsz=14, 1056 UPM at opsz=32, a cap height of 1490 UPM, an ascender of 1984 UPM, and a descender of -494 UPM.