Optician Sans vs GT Standard

Comparing the features of Optician Sans to GT Standard

Feature
Optician Sans
GT Standard

Capability Features

Automatic Optical Sizing
Custom Alternate Glyphs
Custom Typeface
Customization
Downloadable Files
Enclosed Letter Glyphs
Icons and Pictograms
Inspired by Snellen and Sloan Charts
Latin Character Support
Monospace and Proportional
monospaceproportional
Monospaced Widths
6
No Commercial License Required
Number of Weights
LightRegularMediumSemiboldBoldHeavyBlack
Oblique Styles
Open Source License
Optical Sizes
SmallMediumLarge
PDF Manual
Platform for Expansion
Proportional Widths
6
SIL Open Font License
SIL Open Font License
Stylistic Sets
single-story adouble-story asingle-story gdouble-story galternate Qalternate ysquare dotscompressed alternates
Subfamilies
12
Support for Large, Medium, Small Text Sizes
smallmediumlarge
Supported Languages
Over 300 Latin-alphabet languages
Total Styles
336
Unicode Coverage
Basic and Extended Latin, Numbers, Punctuation, Symbols
Variable Axes
weightwidthslantoptical size
Variable Fonts Support

Integration Features

Available on GitHub
File Format Support
Variable font, OTF/TTF (implied)
Glyph Panel Support
Platform Compatibility
Any system supporting variable fonts

Limitation Features

Exclusive Purchase Source
Grilli Type only
Latin Alphabet Only
No API/Plugin Integration
No Explicit Integrations
No Individual Optical Size Sale
No Non-Latin Character Support
No Pricing Plans

Pricing Features

Free Tier
Free Trial Fonts
Full Family Price
From $1008
Number of Trial Fonts
336
Paid Licensing
Pricing Per Style
From $50 / $100
Subfamily Price
From $280 / $560
Trial Includes All Grilli Fonts