Geologica

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Weights and styles

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

Geologica is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range. There is no separate italic file: slanted styles are set with the Slant axis.

About Geologica

Geologica is a sans serif that starts from humanist proportions and pushes them towards constructed, geometric shapes. The specimen shows wide letters with ample spacing, large openings in c, e and s, a double-storey g and an even stroke; its makers present it as a typeface for serious text. A single variable file carries four axes: weight from 100 to 900, slant from 0 to -12, Cursive, which has the two positions 0 and 1, and Sharpness from 0 to 100, described by the designers as a rational reading of calligraphic pen strokes. Nine named weights run from Thin to Black. There is no separate italic file; slanted text comes from the slant axis. The 970 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. Sindre Bremnes and Frode Helland designed Geologica at Monokrom, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Geologica works

Long reading on screens

Wide letters, open apertures and loose spacing keep paragraphs even in colour at text sizes.

Editorial headlines with an edge

Raising Sharpness towards 100 brings pen-like cuts into the strokes, which sets a headline apart from body text in the same family.

Sites in several scripts

Latin, Cyrillic and Greek are drawn in one file, so Russian, Greek and English pages share a typeface.

Interface text with emphasis

The slant axis reaches -12, which supplies slanted emphasis without loading a second font file.

Brand typography

Nine weights from Thin to Black, plus the Sharpness setting, give an identity a range of tones from one file.

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
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, 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 Geologica

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 Geologica 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: "Geologica";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Geologica-VariableFont_CRSV%2CSHRP%2Cslnt%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Geologica 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=Geologica:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The weight axis defaults to 100

Opened without a weight setting, the variable file shows Thin; choose a weight explicitly for text.

Slant replaces a separate italic

There is one font file. Slanted text is produced with the slant axis (0 to -12), and the Cursive axis switches between 0 and 1.

Sharpness runs from 0 to 100

The default is 0, the plain sans shown in the specimen.

FAQs

Collections with Geologica

• Variable fonts with unusual axes

  Experimental and expressive variable fonts with custom axes: softness, bounce, casualness, morphing, rotation, grade and more.

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