Jost

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Weights and styles

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

Jost 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 Jost

Jost is a geometric sans serif typeface that draws on German sans-serif designs of the 1920s. Its capitals follow classical proportions, with a wide, round O and G beside a narrow E, F and S, and the capitals A, M, N, V and W end in sharp points. The capital J drops below the baseline, and the lowercase combines long ascenders with a compact two-storey a. Owen Earl, who created the foundry indestructible type*, designs and maintains the family; in 2020 he and Mirko Velimirovic made it a variable font. The weight axis runs from 100 to 900, which gives nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic, 18 styles altogether. Jost holds 535 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic, with the letters for Russian and Bulgarian. It was added to Google Fonts in 2020.

Where Jost works

Brand identities

Pointed capitals and round bowls give a name a constructed, early-modernist look across nine weights.

Headlines and posters

ExtraBold and Black fill a poster line, while Thin and ExtraLight give large titles a fine-line look.

Website text

Regular and Medium with their italics cover paragraphs and emphasis; the two-storey a keeps words clear in running text.

Presentations

One family supplies title, subtitle and body weights, so slides need no second typeface.

Russian-language layouts

The Cyrillic set covers Russian and Bulgarian in the same geometric style as the Latin.

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
• Russian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Jost

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Jost 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=Jost:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The capital J descends

In Jost the J reaches below the baseline, which is visible in words that start with it.

Cyrillic is partial

Russian and Bulgarian are covered, but the letters for Ukrainian are incomplete, and Greek and Vietnamese are not included.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate files, each with the full 100 to 900 weight range.

FAQs

Collections with Jost

• Geometric sans-serif fonts

  Sans-serif families built on circles, straight lines and even strokes, from 1920s-inspired designs to current brand typefaces.

• Thin and hairline fonts for light, airy headings

  Families with a Thin weight and single-style hairline display faces, for large headings, covers and minimal layouts.

• Art Deco fonts and 1920s geometric display faces

  Hairline geometrics, multi-line capitals and high-contrast display faces in the manner of the 1920s and 1930s, with two Bauhaus relatives.

• Font families with nine weights and italics

  Complete families running from Thin to Black with an italic for every weight: eighteen styles for a full typographic system.

Similar fonts

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