Exo

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Exo Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Exo ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Exo Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Exo Regular Italic
• Medium 500Exo Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Exo SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Exo Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Exo ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Exo Black Black Italic

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

About Exo

Exo is a geometric sans serif with a technological character. In the specimen its round letters are squared into rounded rectangles, the lowercase a has a flat top and an open, angular bowl, the e and s end in horizontal cuts, and the at sign is drawn as a rounded box. Natanael Gama designed it as a versatile family with nine weights, Thin 100 to Black 900, each with a true italic, 18 styles altogether. The official notes say it works as a display face and for small to intermediate text sizes; they also record that a full redrawing appeared as Exo 2 in December 2013. Exo itself was updated to a variable font in April 2020, with a weight axis from 100 to 900. It holds 1,050 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Robin Mientjes is credited alongside Gama.

Where Exo works

Science fiction and game titles

Squared bowls and the box-shaped at sign carry a futuristic theme in a few words.

Technology logos

Thin 100 gives a fine-line wordmark, while Black 900 turns the same shapes into a solid block.

Event and esports graphics

True italics in every weight add motion to scores, names and slogans.

Interface headings

The notes rate it for display and intermediate sizes, which fits section titles above plainer body text.

Product spec sheets

Angular numerals and capitals suit short technical labels and model names.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Exo

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 Exo 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: "Exo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Exo-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Exo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Exo-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Exo 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=Exo:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Exo 2 is a separate redrawing

The notes point to Exo 2 for small sizes and long texts; Exo keeps the original, more angular outlines.

No Cyrillic

Subsets are Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese only.

Thin is very fine

The specimen's Thin 100 is a hairline that needs large sizes to stay visible.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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