Lexend Exa
Designed By
Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez, Superunion
9 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Lexend Exa · Regular
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9 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Lexend Exa ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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A Clear Hierarchy
Lexend Exa · 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.
9 Styles,
One Family
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Thin100
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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Black900
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Lexend Exa takes up a lot of line. A sentence of small letters in it runs 39% longer than the same sentence in Arial, and every character comes with a wide margin of air on each side.
That spacing is the whole argument of Lexend. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, working as an educational therapist in Silicon Valley, found her students read and understood more once she loosened the spacing in their assignments, and she came to believe that most reading trouble, dyslexia included, is visual or perceptual, made worse by type fitted too tightly. Her method has a name, the Shaver-Troup Formulations, and Lexend is 7 families built on it. Exa is 1 of the wide ones.
Thomas Jockin drew the first Lexend widths with her; Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion are credited by Google as well. Font Bureau made all the families variable on a weight axis in June 2021.
What comes in the box:
- 9 weights, Thin at 100 to Black at 900
- fractions, ordinals, superscripts and subscripts
- a slashed zero and 1 stylistic set
- Latin with Vietnamese
Who should set a page in it? A student whose eyes swim on a crowded worksheet, first. For everyone else we would keep it to short blocks, a caption or a sidebar, since a long paragraph at this width asks a lot of scrolling.
Characters & Figures
685 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Lexend Exa
9 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 357 KB ↓- Version
- 1.007
- 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/lexend-exa-3/lexend-exa-3.css">
body {
font-family: 'Lexend Exa', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
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Lexend Exa Heading · Lexend Exa 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.