Hello! Today I’m very excited to help launch Shantell Sans, a font project I’ve been working on for almost 3 years. The project conception & creative direction was by Shantell Martin, based on her artwork, handwriting, and creative philosophy. I had the pleasure of being the primary type designer & font developer on the project, and I got to work with Anya Danilova to extend the font to support Cyrillic script. Google Fonts provided additional support for project expansions (the v1 was Latin-script only, and didn’t have Italic or Spacing axes) and QA testing. You can now download the full type family directly from its website, find it via Google Fonts, and/or use it on Google Docs, Sheets, etc. We also put together shantellsans.com, a “minisite” web specimen with an in-depth process essay on the project conception, design, and development – I hope you check it out!

Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin

A marker-style font family for creative expression.

A marker-style font family for creative expression.