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Geist

A plain grotesque-style variable sans in nine weights with italics, the proportional half of the Geist project.

Sans Serif 18 styles · variable by Andrés Briganti, Mateo Zaragoza, Guillermo Rauch and others OFL

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Geist is a sans serif family credited to Andrés Briganti, Mateo Zaragoza and four further contributors, with Basement.studio and Vercel named inside the fonts. Geist is variable, with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and italics, 18 styles in total. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interfaces, product sites and text.

Geist font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Andrés Briganti, Mateo Zaragoza, Guillermo Rauch, Evil Rabbit, José Rago, Facundo Santana
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
18 9 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
974
Languages checked
28 see the list
Last updated
version 1.800
Used for
Body textInterfacesBrandingMinimalist

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

Try Geist

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

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

Geist 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 Geist

Geist is a sans serif family in the grotesque manner, with strokes of even thickness and plain, compact letterforms. In the specimen the lowercase is tall, the a is double-storey, the g single-storey, the capital G carries a spur, and the Q has a short straight tail; even in Black the counters stay open. Geist comes as two variable fonts, roman and italic, each with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and nine named weights, 18 styles in total. The 974 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese; Greek is absent. Geist was added to Google Fonts in 2024 together with its monospaced companion. The credits list Andrés Briganti, Mateo Zaragoza, Guillermo Rauch, Evil Rabbit, José Rago and Facundo Santana, and the name table adds Basement.studio and Vercel. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Geist works

Web app interfaces
A tall lowercase and even strokes keep menu items, form labels and table cells clear at small sizes.
Product and documentation sites
Nine weights with italics cover page titles, body copy, emphasis and captions in one family.
Developer tools
The monospaced Geist Mono comes from the same project, so prose and code can share a related design.
Minimal brand systems
Thin 100 for large display lines and Black 900 for short labels give contrast without a second typeface.
Interfaces in Russian or Vietnamese
Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets let the same family carry translated screens.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 974 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2024 The Geist Project Authors (https://github.com/vercel/geist-font.git)

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 Geist

Geist Mono Monospace

Geist Mono is the fixed-width family from the same project and matches Geist weight for weight in code blocks and data.

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

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Two variable files
The download holds a roman and an italic variable font, each with a weight axis from 100 to 900.
Weight is the only axis
There is no width or optical size axis; the design changes only in weight and between roman and italic.
No Greek
The character sets are Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Is Geist free for commercial use?

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

Who designed Geist?

Geist is credited to Andrés Briganti, Mateo Zaragoza, Guillermo Rauch, Evil Rabbit, José Rago and Facundo Santana. The font files also name Basement.studio and Vercel.

How many weights does Geist have?

Geist has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, which gives 18 styles.

Is Geist a variable font?

Yes. Geist is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 100 to 900.

Which languages does Geist support?

Geist includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, German, Turkish, Czech and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian. Greek is not covered.

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