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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Scoutie Sans Font

Scoutie Sans is a variable sans-serif typeface designed by Ty Finck for the customer service platform Help Scout . It was created to serve dual roles within the Help Scout brand: a compact, highly legible workhorse for dense UI environments, and a typeface with enough personality to hold its own at display sizes in marketing contexts. The result sits at the intersection of a utility grotesque and a display sans β€” functional without being anonymous. The family spans a weight range from ExtraLight to ExtraBold (200-800), with matching italics, offered as a variable font. A set of stylistic alternates gives designers control over characters with strong personality: a single-storey a and g , a straight-leg R , a slashed zero, a crossbar-free I , and others. Scoutie Sans supports a broad Latin character set covering Western, Central, and Eastern European languages, as well as a range of African Latin orthographies. To contribute, see github.com/sursly/scoutie .

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Ultra-light, Clean, Modern, Sans Serif
Use Case
Body Text, UI
Ideal For
branding, interfaces, and modern layouts
Pairs With
a contrasting serif for headings

Scoutie Sans Specifications

Font FamilyScoutie Sans ExtraLight
StyleRegular
Full NameScoutie Sans ExtraLight
Version1.001
Weight200 (ExtraLight)
Glyph Count960 glyphs
PostScript NameScoutieSans-ExtraLight
DesignerTy Finck
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size130.4 KB

OpenType Features

Scoutie Sans ships with 10 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Case-sensitive forms
  • Fractions
  • Ordinals
  • Proportional figures
  • Scientific inferiors
  • Subscripts
  • Superscripts
  • Tabular figures
  • Slashed zero
  • Stylistic sets (9)
  • Variable font Β· axes: wght

Languages Supported

Scoutie Sans supports 430 languages.

How to Install Scoutie Sans Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Scoutie Sans font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Scoutie Sans is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Scoutie Sans Font?

Scoutie Sans Font is a versatile sans-serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Scoutie Sans Font

by Tyler Finck

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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