An eclectic sans serif

In the fall of 2019 I created a Yassitf, a family of 30 sans-serif faces. This year, 2020, I have created a second large sans-serif family, again with 30 faces. While Yassitf was an attempt at a generic face, one that had nothing that stood out to call attention to itself, this new face, Samsheriff, is noticeably different from other sans-serif faces. Putting a sample of it into the What-the-Font engine at myfonts.com reveals no other face that closely resembles it.

Below is a comparison between Yassitf and Samsheriff. While a quick glance may suggest they look similar, a closer comparison of letters shows that they are very different. To make this comparison, Yassitf was sized at 26 points and Samsheriff at 33.

Samsheriff's is the result of reworking the lettering used in Coffinated, a novelty font that had only upper-case letters. Alterations and many additions resulted in Zimric, a hand-drawn face. Zimric was close to being sans-serif, and making additional changes resulted in Samsheriff.

Samsheriff is legible and suitable for text or display. It joins a very crowded field; there is a huge number of well-designed sans serif typefaces already available and more are added each month.

Samsheriff is available at myfonts.com.