The proportions have been selected to be very legible even as body type for longer texts. The font is so robust in detail that a title in large capitals is very eye-catching. It can function positively as well as negatively and is also still legible from a great distance. The shapes of the individual characters follow the ”humanistic“ form language of modern faces. In this way, AUGUST SANS offers an attractive alternative to most of the sans serif fonts used today.

AUGUST SANS supports West European languages including Scandinavian, Central and Eastern European languages, also including Turkish, Vietnamese as well as Greek and Cyrillic.
Along with ligatures for the letter combinations fi, ff, fl, tt and tz the font also includes stylistic alternates for the German ”sharp s“ ß and the figure 3.

Additionally, AUGUST SANS offers several sets of figures: • proportional standard figures of equal height • lining figures in height of the capitals • proportional medieval figures with ascenders and descenders • disproportional tabular figures of equal width • superior and inferior scientific figures and numerators resp. denominators for fractions • circled figures

The AUGUST SANS family is available in four font-weights from light to normal and medium to semi-bold as well as the italic version for each.