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Lexend Giga

A very wide, openly spaced member of the Lexend reading families, variable from Thin 100 to Black 900.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco and others OFL

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Lexend Giga is a wide, openly spaced sans serif from the Lexend collection, seven families intended to improve reading proficiency. Lexend Giga is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900, no italic and 845 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits short headings, labels and widely spaced display text.

Lexend Giga font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez, Superunion
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
845
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.007
Used for
HeadlinesInterfacesBranding

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

Try Lexend Giga

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

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

Lexend Giga 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 Lexend Giga

Lexend Giga is a sans serif typeface with very wide letters and large gaps between them. In the specimen the lowercase alphabet fills the whole line, the round letters o, c and e stretch into broad ovals, and the lowercase a is single-storey. It is part of Lexend, a collection of seven font families developed with the aim of improving reading proficiency through what the project calls the Shaver-Troup Formulations. Like its siblings, Giga is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 100 to 900, which gives nine weights from Thin to Black; the conversion to variable fonts was made in June 2021 with the help of Font Bureau. There is no italic. The single file holds 845 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion are credited as designers.

Where Lexend Giga works

Wide display headings
Broad letters and open spacing spread a two- or three-word title across the full width of a page.
Navigation and section labels
A single word in Medium or SemiBold reads like letterspaced capitals without any manual tracking.
Wordmarks
The stretched ovals of o, c and e give a short brand name a wide, horizontal shape.
Large text for early readers
Widely separated letters keep each character apart in short lines set big.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 845 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 2018 The Lexend Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/lexend), with Reserved Font Name “RevReading Lexend”.

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 Lexend Giga

Lexend Deca Sans Serif

Lexend Deca belongs to the same collection but is far narrower, which makes it the text companion to Lexend Giga headings.

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 Lexend Giga 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: "Lexend Giga";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LexendGiga-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

It needs a lot of width
Lexend Giga takes far more horizontal space per word than a regular sans, so long paragraphs produce very few words per line.
No italic
The family has upright styles only.
The font name is reserved
The license notice reserves the name “RevReading Lexend”.

FAQs

Is Lexend Giga free for commercial use?

Lexend Giga is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. That license permits personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution, but the fonts cannot be sold on their own and derivatives have to stay under the same license. A modified version may not use the Reserved Font Name “RevReading Lexend” without permission.

Who designed Lexend Giga?

Lexend Giga is credited to Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez and Superunion.

How many weights does Lexend Giga have?

Lexend Giga has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, and no italic.

Is Lexend Giga a variable font?

Yes. Lexend Giga is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900.

Why is Lexend Giga so wide?

Lexend Giga is one of seven Lexend families, and it is drawn with very wide letters and open spacing. The collection was developed with the aim of improving reading proficiency.

Which languages does Lexend Giga support?

Lexend Giga includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

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