Shantell Sans
Shantell Sans is a new font created by artist Shantell Martin, designed to be playful and accessible. Inspired by her own experiences with dyslexia, Martin aims to empower individuals to engage with words in a fun and professional manner. The font is available for free under an open font license, encouraging widespread use and creativity.
- ▪Shantell Sans mixes various axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to create diverse font styles.
- ▪The font was inspired by Martin's childhood struggles with spelling and her dyslexia.
- ▪Shantell Sans is released under an open font license, making it widely accessible through platforms like Google Fonts.
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| Original publisher | Shantell Sans → A font for you |
| Canonical URL | https://shantellsans.com/process |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 22:06:38 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T22:27:44.846Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T22:27:44.846Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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The Story of Shantell Sans Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation. Why make a new font? Shantell Martin, Artist Shantell Martin, Photo credit Michelle Mosqueda One of my first relationships with words was back in elementary school. We did spelling tests every week. Since I never passed them, I had to sit in detention. Despite being scared of the spelling tests, I loved words. I wrote and drew a lot. I knew that words helped me to express my feelings and feel better.
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