A superfamily is the collective grouping of several explicitly related type families (such as a serif, sans, and slab) that all share the same underlying structure to their design.
It’s common for a typeface to be made up of several variants (usually weights) and this is referred to as a “family.” When the variants are more plentiful, especially when the family includes variants across typeface genres (e.g. serif and sans), it can be referred to as a “superfamily.” Variable fonts make it possible to deploy an entire superfamily as a single font file.
Prominent examples of Fontfabirc’s superfamilies include Nexa, Nexa Pro, Nexa Round, Nexa Serif, Nexa Slab, Nexa Script, Nexa Rust, and Muller Next (Expanded, Extended, Wide, Ultra Wide, Condensed, Narrow, Extra Condensed, Compressed).
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