Recursive Sans & Mono

Monospace

Casual

Weight

Slant

Cursive

## A highly-flexible new variable font.

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Built to maximize versatility, control, and performance, Recursive is a five-axis variable font. This enables you to choose from a wide range of predefined styles, or dial in exactly what you want for each of its axes: *Monospace, Casual, Weight, Slant, and Cursive*. Taking full advantage of variable font technology, Recursive offers an unprecedented level of flexibility, all from a single font file.

## Extraordinarily versatile.

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Recursive draws inspiration from single-stroke casual signpainting, a style of brush writing that is stylistically flexible and warmly energetic. Adapting this aesthetic basis into a type system, Recursive is designed to excel in digital interactive environments. This makes the typeface ideal for a wide range of uses, including data-rich apps, technical documentation and code editors.

### One font. Infinite combinations.

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Recursive is crafted with adaptability and diversity in mind, offering a complete type system but ensuring that each style can pair perfectly with its siblings. With so many possible variations across its subfamilies, weights and styles, Recursive allows for a dozen of font combinations that provide enough contrast to clearly define typographic roles, while maintaining a cohesive voice.

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## Sans && Mono. In one file. MONO

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The typeface comes in two practical and highly readable subfamilies, Sans and Mono. Thanks to its *Monospace* axis (MONO), both of these subfamilies can be used in a single font file. You can even select custom instances that are semi-proportional or semi-monospaced. 

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Of course, vertical metrics such as line height, cap height, and x-height are shared across the entire *Monospace* axis. This allows harmonious and performant layouts, even where different proportions are mixed, such as in data-rich applications and technical documentation. 

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*Recursive Sans* is made for text & user interface design. While its proportional characters deliver comfortable reading at text sizes, its heaviest weights are perfect to create punchy, tightly-spaced headlines.

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*Recursive Mono* is made for code. Its characters share the same width for clear legibility and perfect alignment. This is particularly helpful for use in programming and data-heavy design tasks, but also allows for creative possibilities in display typography.

### A Sans for more robust layouts.

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The characters within both subfamilies, Sans & Mono, maintain the exact same width across all font styles, independently of the values set on the *Weight, Casual, Slant, and Cursive* axes. You can therefore use Recursive to create animated font transitions without breaking the layout of UI elements like menus and buttons.

## Ready for work. Ready for play. CASL

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Recursive uses its *Casual* axis (CASL) to offer a range of personality, allowing you to get just the right tone for any context. Along this axis, letterforms adjust in stroke curvature, contrast, and terminals to go from a sturdy, rational *Linear* to a friendly, energetic *Casual*. All the styles along this axis are designed to maintain high legibility at medium and text sizes. In display sizes, it is most effective to use either end of the *Casual* axis. 

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*Linear* (CASL 0) styles have subtly-flattened edges and simple, open forms. This optimizes readability and enables enhanced focus in dense information, such as long-form text and complex code.

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*Casual* (CASL 1) echoes the soft & curvy brush strokes of casual signpainting, but simplifies these forms for a striking and inviting tone. This makes it ideal for web headlines, code snippets, and command line interfaces.

## Light to ExtraBlack. And everything in between. wght

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Recursive comes in a wide range of weights, from Light (300) to a super-heavy ExtraBlack (1000). You can choose from its seven predefined weights, or set a custom value through its *Weight* (wght) axis. And because Recursive maintains consistent letterforms along the entire *Weight* axis, it allows for smooth animations between any of its different weights.

## Slant and Cursive. Two axes that work great together, or separate. slnt, CRSV

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In Recursive, slant and cursive letterforms can be controlled separately. The *Slant* axis (slnt) defines the angle of the letters, while the *Cursive* axis (CRSV) lets you tweak how cursive letterforms are substituted in along slnt.

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Recursive’s cursive letterforms (CRSV 1) replace familiar “roman” letterforms with cursive alternates like the single-story “a” and “g”. By default, Recursive will automatically apply these cursive alternates when setting the *Slant* axis (slnt) beyond -14. This allows smooth, animated transitions from normal to oblique type up to 13.99° of slope, but also a “true italic” style with cursive letterforms at 14°. It is also possible to use sloped romans (slnt -15, CRSV 0), upright italics (slnt 0, CRSV 1), or set custom values on both axes for more options to play with.

## Powerful, yet simple to use.

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As a variable font, Recursive gives you fine-grained control over each one of its styles. However, it also comes with 64 predefined styles that are easy to access through your font menu. Called *named instances¹*, these work just like regular static fonts do.

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¹ Named instance: a predetermined location in the designspace of a variable font, similar to the "static instances" that are familiar in traditional digital fonts.

## Supports over 200 languages.

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To meet the needs of global communication, Recursive supports a wide range of Latin-based languages, including Vietnamese. It also comes with an extended set of currencies, symbols, fractions, and arrows.