Iceland

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Iceland Regular

About Iceland

Iceland is a display typeface assembled from square modules. According to its official notes, Victor Kharyk kept every stroke vertical or horizontal, cut the diagonals at 45 degrees and rounded the outlines slightly so that the letters would render cleanly on screens from low resolutions upward. The specimen shows wide, boxy forms with a tall lowercase and simplified shapes for f, k and r. One unusual feature is stated in the notes and visible in the sample: the capitals are noticeably heavier than the lowercase, which separates the two cases and lets scaled-down capitals stand in as small caps. The squarish proportions also fit modular grids and logotypes. The family has one Regular style with 217 glyphs in the basic Latin subset and is not a variable font. Cyreal is the publisher, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Iceland works

Game and technology titles

Square modules and 45-degree cuts give headings for games, hardware and software a machine-made look.

Screen interfaces and overlays

Strictly vertical and horizontal strokes align with the pixel grid in HUDs, dashboards and device mock-ups.

Logotypes on a grid

Boxy letters of similar width drop into modular layouts and square marks without adjustment.

Capitals as small caps

Because capitals are heavier than lowercase, reduced capitals keep enough weight to act as small caps in labels.

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 Iceland

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

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

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

Things to know

Capitals are heavier than lowercase

This is intended. Mixed-case words show a clear jump in stroke weight at each capital.

One style

Iceland has a single Regular cut, with no bold or italic.

Basic Latin subset

Western European languages are covered, French apart from the rare capital Ÿ. Latin Extended letters are not part of the font.

Credits

The catalogue and the name table credit the Cyreal foundry; the official notes name Victor Kharyk as the designer.

FAQs

Collections with Iceland

• Futuristic display fonts for sci-fi titles and logos

  Wide, squared and constructed display faces for science-fiction titles, technology logos, album art and game branding.

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