Genos

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Weights and styles

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

Genos 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 Genos

Genos is a sans serif display family whose letters are broad and low. Curves are flattened into rounded rectangles, so o, e and s read as soft boxes, and the w is built from rounded arches instead of diagonals. Its official description aims it at futuristic, industrial and technical subjects. Genos is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900; nine named weights and their italics give 18 styles, and in the specimen the heaviest cuts close the counters down to narrow slots. The 810 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, together with a Cherokee character set. Robert Leuschke is the designer named in the font, the copyright notice belongs to The Genos Project Authors, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Genos works

Game and science-fiction titles

Boxy bowls and the arched w give a title screen or cover the machine-made look the family was described for.

Technology logos

A short name in ExtraBold or Black forms a compact, wide block; the italic of the same weight adds a sense of speed.

Dashboard and device headings

Thin and Light keep the squared shapes legible as large section labels on dark control-panel layouts.

Motorsport and esports graphics

Italics exist for all nine weights, so slanted scoreboards and team names stay within one family.

Headings in Cherokee

The Cherokee character set lets a heading in that script share the Latin design.

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

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

Character sets found in the files: cherokee, 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 Genos

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

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

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

Things to know

Letters are wide

Genos takes more line length than an ordinary sans serif at the same size, as the specimen's alphabet row shows. Plan for short headings.

Weight axis starts at Thin

The axis default is 100. Name the weight you want when the variable file is used directly.

Upright and italic are separate files

The download has two variable fonts, one per slope, each running from 100 to 900.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Beyond Latin and Vietnamese the only other script is Cherokee.

FAQs

Collections with Genos

• Futuristic display fonts for sci-fi titles and logos

  Wide, squared and constructed display faces for science-fiction titles, technology logos, album art and game branding.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts