Gloock

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Gloock Regular

About Gloock

Gloock is a serif display typeface with a strong contrast between heavy stems and hairline strokes. In the specimen the vertical strokes are thick, serifs and cross strokes thin out to fine lines, and letters such as a, c and r end in teardrop shapes; the spacing is tight, which gives a headline a dense, dark line. The official notes say the design looks to newspaper headlines for its model, treats them in a present-day manner and concentrates on a smooth passage between thin and thick strokes. The family has a single Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 511 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets, enough for languages such as French, German, Polish and Turkish. Duarte Pinto is the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. With hairlines this fine, Gloock belongs at large sizes.

Where Gloock works

Editorial headlines

Heavy stems against hairline serifs give a front-page or feature headline the dark, compact line of newspaper display type.

Magazine covers and mastheads

Tight spacing and teardrop terminals let a few large words carry a cover.

Pull quotes and large numerals

The thick-and-thin figures and quotation marks stand out when set several times larger than the text.

Wordmarks for food and fashion

A single word in Gloock shows its contrast clearly at logo size, where the hairlines stay visible.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Gloock

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Gloock has Regular only: no italic, no bold and no lighter cut.

Drawn for large sizes

The official notes describe it as a display face. At text sizes the hairlines become very thin.

Latin scripts only

The character sets are Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Gloock

• Fonts for newspapers and magazines

  Headline serifs, compact text faces and news gothics for editorial layouts in print and on news sites.

Similar fonts

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