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Climate Crisis

A variable display face whose single Year axis, 1979 to 2050, ties the weight of the letters to Arctic sea ice data.

Display 1 style · variable by Daniel Coull, Eino Korkala OFL

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Climate Crisis is a variable display typeface made for the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and credited to Daniel Coull and Eino Korkala. Its one axis, Year, runs from 1979 to 2050 and links the weight of the letters to Arctic sea ice levels. Climate Crisis is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is built for headlines and campaign graphics.

Climate Crisis font preview card
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Designers
Daniel Coull, Eino Korkala
Classification
Display
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
Yes Year 1979–2050
Glyphs
3,499
Languages checked
27 see the list
Last updated
version 1.007
Used for
HeadlinesPostersEditorialSocial media

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Climate Crisis; the download contains the complete files.

Climate Crisis font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Climate Crisis specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Climate Crisis Regular

Climate Crisis 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 Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis is a display typeface designed to make climate change visible in type. It was made for Helsingin Sanomat, and its weight follows Arctic sea ice measurements for 1979 to 2019 and a projection for 2050, using figures published by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. In place of a weight axis the font has a custom axis, Year, from 1979 to 2050, with eight named positions along it. At the default, 1979, the specimen shows very heavy, wide letters with small counters and thin slits where strokes meet. There is one Regular style and no italic. The font holds 3,499 glyphs and covers Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic character sets. Daniel Coull and Eino Korkala are credited; the name table also lists Joohee Lee and Eunyou Noh. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Climate Crisis works

Headlines on climate reporting
The font was commissioned by a newspaper for this subject, and the Year axis lets a headline carry a data point in its own shape.
Animated data graphics
Animating the Year value from 1979 to 2050 turns a word into a chart of the ice record it is built on.
Campaign posters and placards
The massive 1979 forms fill a poster with a few words.
Teaching and exhibition material
Setting the same word at several years shows the change side by side without a separate diagram.
Cyrillic headlines
Cyrillic letters are included, so the same treatment works for Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian text.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 3,499 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
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2020 The Climate Crisis Project Authors (https://github.com/dancoull/ClimateCrisis)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Climate Crisis

News Cycle Sans Serif

Climate Crisis is a display face for headings; News Cycle is a sans serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cormorant Unicase Serif

Climate Crisis is a display face for headings; Cormorant Unicase is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Fredoka Sans Serif

Climate Crisis is a display face for headings; Fredoka is a sans serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Climate Crisis 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Climate Crisis";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ClimateCrisis-Regular-VariableFont_YEAR.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Climate Crisis", sans-serif;
}

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

The axis is custom
Year has the tag YEAR and is not a standard weight axis. In CSS it is set with font-variation-settings, for example "YEAR" 2019.
One style
Climate Crisis has a single Regular style. Bold and italic settings have no separate cut.
Large file
The variable TTF in the download is 3.6 MB, far bigger than an ordinary single-style font.

FAQs

Is Climate Crisis free for commercial use?

Yes. Climate Crisis is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Climate Crisis?

Climate Crisis is credited to Daniel Coull and Eino Korkala and was made for Helsingin Sanomat. The font's name table also names Joohee Lee, Eunyou Noh and NohType.

What does the Year axis in Climate Crisis do?

The Year axis of Climate Crisis runs from 1979 to 2050. Each position changes the weight of the letters in step with Arctic sea ice levels for that year, measured up to 2019 and predicted for 2050.

Is Climate Crisis a variable font?

Yes. Climate Crisis is a variable font with one custom axis, Year (YEAR), from 1979 to 2050.

Which languages does Climate Crisis support?

Climate Crisis includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Finnish, Swedish, German, French and Polish, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

Can I use Climate Crisis on a website?

Yes. Download Climate Crisis and host it yourself, or load it from the official source, and set the year with font-variation-settings.

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