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Grenze

A magazine serif from Omnibus-Type that mixes Roman structure with blackletter angles, in nine weights with italics.

Serif 18 styles · variable by Omnibus-Type OFL

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Grenze is a serif family from Omnibus-Type that draws on both Roman and blackletter typefaces and was first intended for magazines. Grenze is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900, giving nine weights with italics, 18 styles in all. It holds 782 glyphs and is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Grenze font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Omnibus-Type
Classification
Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
18 9 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
782
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.003
Used for
HeadlinesBody textEditorialBold

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Grenze

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Grenze; the download contains the complete files.

Grenze font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Grenze specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

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

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

About Grenze

Grenze is a serif family in which the proportions of a Roman text face meet the broken curves of blackletter. In the specimen the bowls of a, e and o are cut into angled facets, joins in n and r meet the stem at a sharp corner, and the serifs are short and wedge-like. The letters are fairly narrow, and the figures are old-style, with 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 dropping below the line. According to the official notes Grenze was first designed for magazine use. The family is a variable font on a weight axis from 100 to 900, with nine named weights from Thin to Black and an italic for each, 18 styles. It holds 782 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, is credited to Omnibus-Type, and is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Grenze works

Magazine features
Grenze was first drawn for magazines: Regular and Medium with their italics carry text, and Black handles the headline.
Headlines with an edge
Faceted bowls and sharp joins become clearly visible in the ExtraBold and Black weights at large sizes.
Book covers and titles
The blackletter angles give a title a historical note while the Roman structure keeps each letter familiar.
Pull quotes and standfirsts
Italics exist for all nine weights, so a quote can be set light, regular or heavy in the same family.
Editorial pages in Vietnamese
The 782 glyphs include the Vietnamese character set next to Latin Extended.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 782 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2019, The Grenze Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/Grenze)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Grenze

Inter Sans Serif

Grenze is serif and Inter is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Lekton Monospace

Lekton is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Grenze as the text face.

Mukta Sans Serif

Grenze is serif and Mukta is sans serif (7 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

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 Grenze 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Grenze";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Grenze-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Grenze";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Grenze-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Grenze with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Two variable files
The download holds one variable file for the upright styles and one for the italics, each covering weights 100 to 900.
Old-style figures in the specimen
The numerals shown vary in height like lowercase letters, which matters in tables and prices.
Latin scripts only
Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Is Grenze free for commercial use?

Yes. Grenze is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so it can be used in personal and commercial work, modified and redistributed. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and modified versions keep the same license.

Who designed Grenze?

Grenze is credited to Omnibus-Type. The font's name table names Renata Polastri as the designer.

How many weights does Grenze have?

Grenze has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 18 styles.

Is Grenze a variable font?

Yes. Grenze is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900, in separate upright and italic files.

Is Grenze a blackletter font?

No. Grenze is a serif text family that borrows angular details from blackletter while keeping Roman letter shapes.

Which languages does Grenze support?

Grenze includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, Spanish, French, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

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