It's late and you're assembling the landing page for an open source tool, and you want type that looks deliberate without a licensing argument in the morning. Tiny5 Duo, drawn by Stefan Schmidt for his Stefan Schmidt Art label, is a sans-serif that suits that kind of work. The family ships as eight files across multiple weights and styles, and Regular is the one most people install first.

The font comes from the open source side of type design, published on GitHub under the name gissio. Latin coverage runs past 611 languages, which gives a documentation site room to add translations without swapping typefaces. Good homes for it include developer documentation sidebars, indie game menu screens, project README pages rendered for the web, and hackathon sticker sheets where small labels still need to read clearly.

Treat the eight files as a working set: Regular carries text sizes, while the other styles do better on headings and interface labels than inside long paragraphs. Pairing Regular with one of the other styles covers most of an interface without pulling in a second family. At large display sizes, adjust the letter spacing by eye instead of trusting the defaults, since big type exposes gaps that go unnoticed at 14px. Open Font License, commercial use allowed, direct download below.