Exo 2

Try Exo 2

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Exo 2 Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Exo 2 ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Exo 2 Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Exo 2 Regular Italic
• Medium 500Exo 2 Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Exo 2 SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Exo 2 Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Exo 2 ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Exo 2 Black Black Italic

Exo 2 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 2

Exo 2 is a geometric sans serif that redraws the earlier Exo from scratch. The official notes say the aim was a technological, futuristic feeling in an elegant design, with a more organic look than Exo so that it performs better at small sizes and in long texts. In the specimen the round letters are built on rounded rectangles, some strokes end in angled cuts, and the lowercase is tall and open. The family has nine weights, Thin 100 to Black 900, each with a true italic, for 18 styles; since March 2020 it has been a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900. Its 1,033 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Natanael Gama is the designer, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Exo 2 works

Technology and gaming brands

Rounded-rectangle letters carry the futuristic tone the design set out to convey.

Dashboards and app interfaces

The redrawing aimed at small sizes, so labels and readouts stay clear while keeping the technical look.

Longer product copy

The notes describe the forms as more organic than Exo, which makes paragraphs less tiring than in the original.

Russian-language interfaces

Cyrillic is included here, which the original Exo does not offer.

Titles and trailers

Black 900 and its italic give short titles speed and mass.

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
• 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, 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 2

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 2 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 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Exo2-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Exo 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Exo2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Exo 2", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Exo 2 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+2:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Different from Exo

Exo 2 is a separate family, not an update; the two have different outlines and different glyph sets.

True italics

The italics are drawn styles rather than slanted romans, one for each of the nine weights.

No Greek

Cyrillic and Vietnamese are covered, but Greek is not.

FAQs

Collections with Exo 2

• Squared sans-serif fonts for tech and game interfaces

  Square-shouldered sans-serif families with two or more weights for HUDs, dashboards, esports graphics and hardware-flavored branding.

Similar fonts

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