Nebula Sans

Aug 26, 2026 10:03 PM - 2 hours ago 3

Introducing

A versatile, modern, artist sans-serif pinch a neutral aesthetic, designed for legibility successful some integer and people applications.

Based connected Source Sans by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe Fonts.

Nebula Sans is the caller marque typeface for Nebula, the premium streaming work from independent creators. Based connected Source Sans and designed to beryllium a drop-in replacement to Whitney SSm, Nebula Sans is disposable for anyone to usage nether the SIL Open Font License.

Watch our short documentary movie astir the communicative down Nebula Sans, written & directed by David Friedman.

Featuring 2 styles successful six weights, Nebula Sans is well-suited for usage successful interfaces, print, and for immoderate different graphical, digital, physical, metaphysical, metaphorical, aliases allegorical typeface needs.

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Nebula Sans Light

I’d return the awe of knowing complete the awe of ignorance immoderate day

Nebula Sans Book

The “tv” successful nebula.tv stands for “Taylor’s Version”

Nebula Sans Medium

Don’t usage 7 words erstwhile 4 will do

Nebula Sans Semibold

Introducing: Facts and fiction

Nebula Sans Bold

An indie streaming service

Nebula Sans Black

Nebula Sans Black Italic

Enter the Snack Zone

Nebula Sans Bold Italic

There’s nary spot for illustration home

Nebula Sans Semibold Italic

Charl is the cardinal to our success

Nebula Sans Medium Italic

We’re assembling a unit for a heist

Nebula Sans Book Italic

We judge successful facts, science, and quality rights

Nebula Sans Light Italic

I’ve been navigating based connected cardinal directions…and vibes

Why we made this

We built our ain typeface for a fewer cardinal reasons:

Personalization: we tin customize the fonts to align pinch our preferences.
Features: we tin merge precocious typography features tailored to our usage cases.
Sustainability: the costs of licensing commercialized typefaces increases arsenic we grow.

Source Sans was the cleanable instauration for Nebula Sans because it shares galore superior characteristics pinch Whitney SSm, our erstwhile marque typeface — some were designed to span the spread betwixt American gothic and European artist typefaces, pinch a beardown accent connected readability. The mostly of the adjustments we made were to accommodate the metrics of Source Sans to amended lucifer those of Whitney SSm, since Source Sans is smaller and narrower by default.

The connection 'handgloves' successful some fonts, overlayed connected each different to show the differences.

Nebual Sans upright and italic examples.

Text astir a literal nebula, showcasing the font's superior letters and numbers.

Alternate glyphs for the letters 'A', 'L', and 'G'.

Typographical Details

Punctuation

The default punctuation marks successful Whitney SSm were, to our taste, excessively straight. Nebula Sans uses beautiful curly glyphs from Source Sans.

Stylistic Alternates

Nebula Sans features the aforesaid stylistic alternates arsenic Source Sans, pinch the defaults aligned pinch those of Whitney SSm.

Single storey a font-feature-settings: 'ss01';

Open g font-feature-settings: 'ss02';

Tailed l font-feature-settings: 'ss03';

Asterisk

In typography, the asterisk awesome was named arsenic specified because it resembles a star. We emotion stars, truthful really could we not put our ain rotation connected this small glyph?

Tabular Figures

The default type of Whitney SSm lacks support for tabular lining figures, truthful we were thrilled to beryllium capable to see them successful Nebula Sans. Tabular figures (or monospaced numerals) let america to do things for illustration increment the timestamp successful the video subordinate while keeping the digits from jumping astir arsenic they change.