Germania One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Germania One Regular

About Germania One

Germania One is a display typeface that crosses fraktur with geometric sans serif construction. Its designer, John Vargas Beltrán, describes it as a mix of two historical German ideas, meant to look modern and old at once. In the specimen the strokes are heavy and upright and the capitals keep a plain sans skeleton, but the top of A rises to a pointed arch, the bowls of O and D are cut to points, lowercase stems end in slanted cuts and the dot on i and j is a diamond. The letters are fairly narrow. Germania One is one static Regular file with 275 glyphs in a Latin character set, which includes the letters for English, German, Spanish, Italian and the Nordic languages. There is no italic, second weight or variable version.

Where Germania One works

Beer labels and menus

Fraktur traits on a sans skeleton give labels and menu titles a German accent while staying readable.

Event and festival posters

Heavy strokes and pointed arches make a short title stand out at poster size.

Logos and badges

The diamond dot and pointed O give a short name a distinct outline in one colour.

Game and album titles

The mix of old and modern forms suits titles that want a gothic tone without full blackletter.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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 Germania One

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 Germania One 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: "Germania One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/GermaniaOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Germania One 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=Germania+One&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Not a full blackletter

The capitals follow sans serif shapes; only details such as pointed arches, angled cuts and the diamond dot come from fraktur.

One weight

Germania One has Regular 400 only, with no italic.

French lacks one rare letter

The letters for French are present except for the rare capital Ÿ.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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