Waka SansType specimen v 1.0 · OFL · 20 styles
Waka Sans
Compact. Tight. Volcanic. — a geometric sans raised on Azorean basalt.
01Twenty styleshover → preview · click → copy
Basalto
Bold 700 — roman
02The furnaceone slider feeds the fire
MAGMA
weight0100
optical09.0
tracking+0.020
Heat0%
03Seismographevery letter is its own weight
Amplitude450
Frequency1.6
04Playgroundtype · drag · roll
Basalto
Weight840
Optical40
Size110
Tracking-0.02
Leading1.05
05Poster machinefifteen layouts · four palettes · PNG export

Fifteen generative layouts, set live in Waka Sans on a canvas — weights 100→1000, roman and italic, no images. Shuffle until it sings.

06Glyph furnace403 characters · click any cell
g
U+0067 · gwght 700
07Text sizesopsz auto — same file
08Numerals & typeface infoisland data
2.351 m ↑ 38,66°N 1.432 km²
Waka Sans — typeface info
Capital height700
x-height526
Units per em1000
Weight axis100 – 1000
Optical axis9 – 40
Styles20 + variable
Characters403
LicenceOFL 1.1
Numbers at work — inter-island departuresWaka Sans SemiBold · figures
Ponta DelgadaWK 04106:45Gate W1Boarding
HortaWK 11809:10Gate B4On time
Madalena do PicoWK 23511:20Gate C2Boarding
Angra do HeroísmoWK 00714:05Gate A7Delayed
Vila do CorvoWK 39017:50Gate D1On time
1/2 · 1/4 · 3/4 No 1a 2o 3a 38,7°N — 25,7°W +351 296 000 000 1957/58 © 9 ilhas · 245.000 € 1.249,90 12:45:07
09Weight × Opticalthe whole design space · click → copy
hover a cell to read its coordinates
10OpenType switchesflip them live
frac
1/2 chávena + 3/4 de mel

Plain digits around a slash compose into real fractions — ½, ¼, ¾.

ordn
1a edição, 2o volume

Portuguese and Spanish ordinals raise their a and o automatically.

sups
E = mc2 · km2 · x3

True superior figures for exponents and footnote markers — drawn, not scaled.

tnum
11.111,11
90.807,64

Tabular figures share one width, so columns of numbers stack clean.

11Use itvariable · TTF · OTF · WOFF2
Get Waka Sans.

Waka Sans grew from the open-source DM Sans — rebuilt letterforms, its own spacing and figures — and ships under the SIL Open Font License for print, web and everything Atlantic.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Waka Sans";
  src: url("fonts/webfonts/WakaSans%5Bopsz,wght%5D.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 100 1000;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Waka Sans";
  src: url("fonts/webfonts/WakaSans-Italic%5Bopsz,wght%5D.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 100 1000;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
body { font-family: "Waka Sans", sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: auto; }