Atkinson Hyperlegible Next
Designed By
Braille Institute, Applied Design Works, Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth, Letters From Sweden
14 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Next · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
14 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Atkinson Hyperlegible Next ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Clear Hierarchy
Atkinson Hyperlegible Next · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
14 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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J. Robert Atkinson founded the Braille Institute, and his name went on a typeface the year the institute turned 100. For the 2019 centennial the institute hired Applied Design Works to rebrand it, and Brad Scott and Elliott Scott went looking for a font that people with low vision could read with ease.
Nothing on the market met their goals, so they drew Atkinson Hyperlegible, and the first version won a Fast Company Innovation by Design award that year.
What Next changed
This reworked version reached Google Fonts in January 2025, credited to the Braille Institute, Applied Design Works, Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth and Letters from Sweden. It brings new weights, better kerning, refined curves, more symbols and wider language support. The skeleton is still a traditional grotesque, with distinctive, unambiguous shapes worked in wherever a character might be mistaken for another, and now and then a form you would not expect.
14 styles, Extra Light to Extra Bold with italics, and the italics hold exactly the width of the roman, so emphasis never reflows a line. Tabular figures, fractions and superscripts are in the kit.
For forms, medicine labels and signage, Regular and Medium are the weights we’d trust. Extra Light works against the whole point of the family when the reader has low vision.
Characters & Figures
362 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 359 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Atkinson Hyperlegible Next
14 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 347 KB ↓- Version
- 2.001
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-next/atkinson-hyperlegible-next.css">
body {
font-family: 'Atkinson Hyperlegible Next', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Next Heading · Atkinson Hyperlegible Next Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.