Gluten

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Weights and styles

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

Gluten is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Gluten

Gluten is a display family built from round, soft-ended strokes, described by its makers as slightly loud and very round. In the specimen the letters are wide and low, the lowercase e and n lean on curved strokes, the m is drawn with rounded arches, the ampersand and @ are open loops, and nothing ends in a sharp corner. The family is a variable font with two axes: weight, from 100 to 900, with nine named weights from Thin to Black, and slant, from −13 to 13, which tilts the letters in either direction. There are no separate italic styles; the slant axis does that work. Its 757 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Tyler Finck designed Gluten at Etcetera Type Company, and the family is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Gluten works

Food and snack packaging

Round, doughy letters in the heavier weights suit a product name on a bag or box.

Children's titles and games

Soft ends and wide shapes with no sharp corners keep a title friendly at large sizes.

Animated headings

Two variable axes let a heading change weight and lean back and forth in motion graphics or CSS.

Stickers and social posts

Black 900 fills a short word almost solid, while Thin 100 draws the same shapes as a fine line.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Gluten

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

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

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

Things to know

Slant goes both ways

The slant axis runs from −13 to 13, so letters can lean backward as well as forward.

No named italics

The nine named styles are upright weights; slanted settings come from the axis.

One variable file

The download is a single variable font with both axes.

FAQs

Collections with Gluten

• Rounded friendly fonts for social media and apps

  Sans-serif and display families with rounded stroke ends: soft, approachable type for social posts, onboarding screens and children's brands.

Similar fonts

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