Geo

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Geo Regular Italic

About Geo

Geo is a display typeface in which nearly every curve is replaced by a straight stroke and a right angle. In the specimen the o is a rectangle, capitals and lowercase are narrow and of one stroke thickness, and diagonals appear only where a letter cannot do without them, as in K, X and Z. The official notes place Geo among the descendants of experimental alphabets that modernists such as Herbert Bayer drew in the 1920s, and they add a wry remark about the consumerist use of that look in the 1980s and 1990s. Ben Weiner is the designer. The family has one weight in two styles, Regular and Italic, and is not a variable font. Its 207 glyphs cover the basic Latin character set, including the letters needed for English, French, German and Spanish. Geo is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Geo works

Logos and wordmarks

Letters reduced to rectangles and straight strokes give a short name a constructed, emblem-like shape.

Poster and flyer titles

Narrow box-shaped letters fit a long title on one line and echo the 1920s modernist work the design refers to.

Titles in grid-based layouts

Right-angled outlines line up with rules, boxes and columns, so headings and frames share the same geometry.

Short labels and numerals

The figures are squared off like the letters, which suits scoreboards, counters and numbered sections.

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
• Estonian

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 Geo

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 Geo 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: "Geo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Geo-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Geo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Geo-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Geo 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=Geo:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight, upright and italic

Geo comes as Regular and Italic at weight 400. There is no bold.

A small character set

The 207 glyphs cover the basic Latin subset only: letters for Western European languages such as French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Danish. The Latin Extended subset, Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

The name Geo is reserved

The copyright notice lists Geo as a Reserved Font Name, so a modified version has to be released under another name.

FAQs

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