BioRhyme

Try BioRhyme

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200BioRhyme ExtraLight
• Light 300BioRhyme Light
• Regular 400BioRhyme Regular
• Medium 500BioRhyme Medium
• SemiBold 600BioRhyme SemiBold
• Bold 700BioRhyme Bold
• ExtraBold 800BioRhyme ExtraBold

BioRhyme is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About BioRhyme

BioRhyme is a slab serif family for the Latin script designed by Aoife Mooney. Its letters are broad, with serifs drawn as flat rectangular blocks almost as thick as the stems, and the specimen shows a few idiosyncratic shapes: a z whose top stroke bends like a wave, curly braces that wriggle, and a Q with a tail that crosses the bowl. The family once existed as two separate families, a normal and an expanded width. According to the official notes it was reworked in September 2023 into one variable font with two axes, weight from 200 to 800 and width from 100 to 125. Seven named weights run from ExtraLight to ExtraBold, with no italics. The single variable file holds 494 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where BioRhyme works

Headlines with a wide stance

Pushing the width axis towards 125 stretches a short headline across a column without changing the font size.

Brand typography

The wave-topped z and block serifs give a wordmark details that are easy to recognise.

Editorial display and subheads

Seven named weights from ExtraLight to ExtraBold cover decks, subheads and drop quotes in one family.

Posters and covers

ExtraBold at the expanded width fills a format with a few dark, wide words.

Responsive web headings

One variable file lets width tighten on narrow screens and open up on wide ones.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with BioRhyme

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use BioRhyme on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "BioRhyme";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BioRhyme-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "BioRhyme", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves BioRhyme with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=BioRhyme:wght@200..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two axes in one file

The download is a single variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 800 and a width axis from 100 to 125.

No italics

BioRhyme has upright styles only.

The expanded width is now an axis

According to the official notes, the former separate expanded family was folded into BioRhyme in September 2023; use the width axis to reach it.

FAQs

Collections with BioRhyme

• Slab serif fonts

  Slab-serif families with block-like serifs, from geometric and typewriter-flavored designs to sturdy text faces with italics.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All slab serif fonts