Nebula Sans

Introducing NebulaSans, a versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif with a neutral aesthetic, designed for legibility in both digital and print applications. Based on Source Sans by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe Fonts, Nebula Sans is the new brand typeface for Nebula, the premium streaming service from independent creators.

隆重介绍 Nebula Sans，这是一款多功能、现代且具有人文主义色彩的无衬线字体，外观中性，专为数字和印刷应用中的易读性而设计。Nebula Sans 基于 Paul D. Hunt 为 Adobe Fonts 设计的 Source Sans，是独立创作者高端流媒体服务平台 Nebula 的全新品牌字体。

Based on Source Sans and designed to be a drop-in alternative to Whitney SSm, Nebula Sans is available for anyone to use under the SIL Open Font License. Watch our short documentary film about the story behind Nebula Sans, written & directed by David Friedman. Featuring two styles in six weights, Nebula Sans is well-suited for use in interfaces, print, and for any other graphical, digital, physical, metaphysical, metaphorical, or allegorical typeface needs.

Nebula Sans 基于 Source Sans 设计，旨在作为 Whitney SSm 的直接替代品，并根据 SIL 开源字体许可协议向所有人开放使用。欢迎观看由 David Friedman 编导的关于 Nebula Sans 幕后故事的短纪录片。Nebula Sans 提供两种样式和六种字重，非常适合用于界面、印刷以及任何其他图形、数字、物理、形而上学、隐喻或寓言式的字体需求。

Why we made this

我们为何制作此字体

We built our own typeface for a few key reasons:

• Personalization: we can customize the fonts to align with our preferences.
• Features: we can integrate advanced typography features tailored to our use cases.
• Sustainability: the cost of licensing commercial typefaces increases as we grow.

我们出于以下几个关键原因构建了自己的字体：

• 个性化： 我们可以自定义字体以符合我们的偏好。
• 功能性： 我们可以集成针对我们使用场景量身定制的高级排版功能。
• 可持续性： 随着我们的成长，商业字体的授权成本会不断增加。

Source Sans was the perfect foundation for Nebula Sans because it shares many primary characteristics with Whitney SSm, our previous brand typeface — both were designed to bridge the gap between American gothic and European humanist typefaces, with a strong emphasis on readability. The majority of the adjustments we made were to adapt the metrics of Source Sans to better match those of Whitney SSm, since Source Sans is smaller and narrower by default.

Source Sans 是 Nebula Sans 的完美基础，因为它与我们之前的品牌字体 Whitney SSm 共享许多主要特征——两者都旨在弥合美国哥特式字体与欧洲人文主义字体之间的差距，并高度强调易读性。我们所做的大部分调整是为了使 Source Sans 的度量标准更好地匹配 Whitney SSm，因为 Source Sans 默认情况下更小、更窄。

Typographical Details

排版细节

Punctuation: The default punctuation marks in Whitney SSm were, to our taste, too straight. Nebula Sans uses beautiful curly glyphs from Source Sans.

标点符号： 在我们看来，Whitney SSm 的默认标点符号过于平直。Nebula Sans 使用了来自 Source Sans 的优美卷曲字形。

Stylistic Alternates: Nebula Sans features the same stylistic alternates as Source Sans, with the defaults aligned with those of Whitney SSm.

• Single storey a: font-feature-settings: 'ss01';
• Open g: font-feature-settings: 'ss02';
• Tailed l: font-feature-settings: 'ss03';

样式替换： Nebula Sans 具有与 Source Sans 相同的样式替换功能，其默认设置与 Whitney SSm 对齐。

• 单层 a：font-feature-settings: 'ss01';
• 开口 g：font-feature-settings: 'ss02';
• 带尾 l：font-feature-settings: 'ss03';

Asterisk: In typography, the asterisk symbol was named as such because it resembles a star. We love stars, so how could we not put our own spin on this little glyph?

星号： 在排版中，星号（Asterisk）之所以得名，是因为它看起来像一颗星星。我们热爱星星，所以怎么能不为这个小字形注入我们自己的特色呢？

Tabular Figures: The default version of Whitney SSm lacks support for tabular lining figures, so we were thrilled to be able to include them in Nebula Sans. Tabular figures (or monospaced numerals) allow us to do things like increment the timestamp in the video player while keeping the digits from jumping around as they change.

表格数字： Whitney SSm 的默认版本不支持等宽表格数字，因此我们很高兴能在 Nebula Sans 中加入这一功能。表格数字（或等宽数字）使我们能够实现诸如视频播放器时间戳递增等功能，同时确保数字在变化时不会跳动。