Electrolize

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Electrolize Regular

About Electrolize

Electrolize is a sans serif built on rounded rectangles. In the specimen the bowls of o, e, a and the zero are boxes with softened corners, the verticals are straight, and stroke ends on letters such as l, t and a are clipped on a diagonal — the terminal detail that, by the official notes, shows up at display sizes. Proportions stay close to an ordinary humanist sans, so words read normally despite the modular construction. The notes trace the idea to lettering inside a Russian commuter train and say the outlines were optimised for screens. There is a single Regular 400 file, without italic or bold, and no variable axis. The 222 glyphs cover basic Latin; French is complete except for the rare capital Ÿ. The name table credits Valery Zaveryaev and the foundry Cyreal, while the catalogue lists Gaslight. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Electrolize works

Control panels and dashboards

Boxy bowls and straight verticals hold the baseline firmly, which suits rows of readouts and status labels.

Sci-fi and game titles

At heading sizes the diagonally clipped terminals become visible and give a title a technical finish.

Hardware and electronics pages

The modular, rectangular construction matches product pages for devices, components and tools.

Short screen copy

The outlines were optimised for screens and keep humanist proportions, so short paragraphs and captions stay readable.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Electrolize

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 Electrolize 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: "Electrolize";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Electrolize-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Electrolize 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=Electrolize&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight

Electrolize is a single Regular 400 file, with no bold and no italic.

Basic Latin only

The font is listed under the Latin subset alone. It has no Latin Extended set and, despite its Russian inspiration, no Cyrillic subset.

Two different credits

The font file and the official notes name Valery Zaveryaev; the catalogue entry names Gaslight. The copyright belongs to Cyreal, with Electrolize as a Reserved Font Name.

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