Henrytype

Henrytype is a typographic family and accompanying design concept intended to illustrate adaptable type across digital and print media. It is attributed to Henrytype Studio, a design collective that released its first public specimens in 2015. In typography, the term Henrytype denotes both the font family and a set of guiding principles—prioritizing legibility, cross-language support, and scalable design.

It is a humanist sans serif with low contrast, generous x-height, open counters, and relatively wide proportions. Its letterforms favor regular rhythm and clear vertical stems, producing an understated yet legible appearance on screen and in print. The family includes broad language support, covering Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, with diacritics and typographic features optimized for multilingual use. Many releases incorporate variable font axes for weight and width, enabling precise adjustments.

Technical features include Regular, Medium, and Bold weights with Italic counterparts, and support for OpenType features such as ligatures, contextual alternates, tabular figures, and small caps. It is designed for deployment as a system font, web font, or in variable font workflows, allowing responsive typography across devices.

Henrytype emerged through iterative design work in the 2010s and has been adopted in educational materials, editorial design, and digital interfaces. It has been praised for versatility and readability, while some designers describe it as conservative compared with more experimental sans serifs.

See also: Typography, Font, Typeface, OpenType, and Humanist sans serif.