Gravitas One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Gravitas One Regular

About Gravitas One

Gravitas One is a display serif in the fat-face tradition, the very heavy advertising letters that appeared in England during the industrial revolution. The specimen shows what defines the genre: vertical strokes many times thicker than the hairline horizontals and serifs, wide letters, ball terminals on a, c, f and r, and lowercase counters reduced to narrow slits. The numerals and the ampersand carry the same extreme contrast. The family has one style, registered as Regular at weight 400 although it is visually very heavy, and it is not a variable font. Its 230 glyphs cover the basic Latin subset only. Riccardo De Franceschi designed Gravitas One, and Sorkin Type Co is named as its maker. The official notes recommend medium to large sizes, where the thin strokes survive. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Gravitas One works

Poster and playbill headlines

The fat-face model comes from advertising print, and the massive verticals carry a few words across a sheet.

Mastheads and cover lines

Wide, dark letters with hairline serifs set a title that reads from a distance.

Labels for spirits, coffee or preserves

Heavy numerals and ball terminals suit the nineteenth-century print look often wanted on such packaging.

Large numerals

Prices, dates and issue numbers in Gravitas One become a graphic element of their own.

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Gravitas One has a single style. There is no lighter weight and no italic.

Not for small sizes

The hairline strokes and slit-like counters close up when the type is set small; the official notes point to medium and large sizes.

Central European languages are not covered

Only the basic Latin subset is present. English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages have complete letters, and French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ; Central European languages are not covered.

FAQs

Collections with Gravitas One

• Bold vintage fonts for poster design

  Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

Similar fonts

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