Glegoo

Try Glegoo

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Glegoo Regular
• Bold 700Glegoo Bold

About Glegoo

Glegoo is a slab serif with a light, even line. In the specimen the Regular's strokes and its flat, unbracketed serifs are almost the same thickness, the lowercase is tall with short ascenders and descenders, and the round letters are open inside. The official notes add that the design is slightly condensed and that these proportions are meant to help reading at very small sizes, while larger settings reveal a gentle modulation in the strokes. The family has two static weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, and no italics. By the same notes, an update in August 2014 brought the Bold, ttfautohint hinting and a Devanagari subset. The 793 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Devanagari. Eduardo Tunni is the designer; the license notice also names the Lohit Fonts Project contributors. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Glegoo works

Small text on screens

A large x-height and open counters, together with hinting, keep the light slab strokes readable in captions and body copy.

Article headlines

At heading sizes the flat serifs and the slight stroke modulation give titles a clean, structured look.

Pages mixing Latin and Devanagari

Both scripts are in the same two files, so a bilingual page needs no second font.

Subheads and labels in Bold

Bold 700 separates subheadings and table headers from Regular text within the family.

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

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

Character sets found in the files: devanagari, latin, latin-ext. 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 Glegoo

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 Glegoo 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: "Glegoo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Glegoo-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Glegoo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Glegoo-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Glegoo", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Glegoo 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=Glegoo:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights, no italic

Glegoo has Regular 400 and Bold 700. Emphasis by italic is not available.

Devanagari included

The fonts carry a Devanagari character set beside Latin and Latin Extended.

Hinted files

The official notes state that the family was hinted with ttfautohint.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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