Pathway Extreme

Try Pathway Extreme

Weights and styles

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

Pathway Extreme 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 Pathway Extreme

Pathway Extreme is a sans serif family in the grotesque tradition, grown out of Pathway Gothic One, a narrow design, into a full variable family. At its default width the specimen shows the opposite of narrow: broad rounds with flattened sides, a wide a, e and o, horizontal stroke endings and an unconventional ampersand. Three axes shape it. Weight runs from 100 to 900 across nine named weights. Width runs from 75 to 100, so the letters can be squeezed back toward the proportions of the parent design. Optical size runs from 8 to 144, for tuning small text and large headlines separately. Upright and italic variable files give 18 styles. The fonts hold 725 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Eduardo Tunni is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Pathway Extreme works

One family from caption to banner

The optical size axis spans 8 to 144, so the same fonts can be tuned for footnotes and for very large titles.

Headlines that must fit a column

Dropping the width axis toward 75 narrows a heading until it fits the measure.

Interface text

Nine weights from Thin to Black give labels, body text and emphasis distinct steps.

Brand systems

With 18 styles and three axes, a single family can cover a brand's signage, web and print needs.

Vietnamese and European text

The glyph set includes the letters for Vietnamese as well as languages such as Turkish, Polish and Czech.

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

Fonts that pair with Pathway Extreme

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 Pathway Extreme 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: "Pathway Extreme";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PathwayExtreme-Italic-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Pathway Extreme";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PathwayExtreme-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Defaults are Thin and optical size 8

The variable files default to weight 100 and optical size 8, so set the weight you want explicitly in CSS or in your design tool.

Width only narrows

The width axis runs from 75 to 100; 100 is the widest setting.

Variable files only

The package holds one upright and one italic variable font. Static instances come from the official source.

FAQs

Collections with Pathway Extreme

• Variable fonts with an optical size axis

  Variable families that redraw themselves for the size they are set at: sturdier and looser when small, finer and tighter when large.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts