Science Gothic

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Weights and styles

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

Science Gothic is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range. There is no separate italic file: slanted styles are set with the Slant axis.

About Science Gothic

Science Gothic is a sans serif family whose curves are flattened into rounded rectangles: O, C, D and the zero have straight sides and tight corners, and at the default width the letters stand broad and low. Its reach comes from four variable axes in one file. Weight runs from Thin 100 to Black 900 in nine named steps. Width runs from 50 to 200, from half the normal width to double. Slant leans the letters by up to 10 degrees, which is how the italic styles are produced, and brings the count to 18 styles. A contrast axis, from 0 to 85, thins the horizontal strokes relative to the verticals. The font carries 1,302 glyphs with Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese and Cyrillic character sets. Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev and Brandon Buerkle are the designers, and Font Detective LLC holds the copyright.

Where Science Gothic works

Headlines fitted to any measure

A width axis from 50 to 200 lets a title be squeezed into a narrow column or stretched across a banner.

Technology and science branding

Squared bowls and flat-sided curves give names and labels an engineered, instrument-panel look.

Responsive and animated type

Four axes in one variable file can be driven from CSS to change weight, width, slant and contrast on the fly.

Sports and motorsport graphics

Wide Black letters with slant applied read as fast, heavy numbers and names.

Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian titles

The Cyrillic character set follows the same squared construction 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
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• 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, cyrillic-ext, 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 Science Gothic

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 Science Gothic 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: "Science Gothic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ScienceGothic-VariableFont_CTRS%2Cslnt%2Cwdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Science Gothic 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=Science+Gothic:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Slant, not a separate italic

Italic styles come from the slant axis, 0 to -10. There is no separate italic file.

Contrast is a custom axis

The CTRS axis is not a standard registered axis; it has to be set by its tag in font-variation-settings.

One variable file

The package contains one variable TTF. The 81 static instances from the source are not included.

No Greek

Cyrillic and Vietnamese are present; Greek is not.

FAQs

Collections with Science Gothic

• Variable fonts with a width axis

  Variable families in which letter width is adjustable as well as weight, from slight narrowing for copy-fitting to a full condensed-to-wide range.

• Variable fonts with unusual axes

  Experimental and expressive variable fonts with custom axes: softness, bounce, casualness, morphing, rotation, grade and more.

Similar fonts

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