Special Gothic

Try Special Gothic

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Special Gothic Regular
• Medium 500Special Gothic Medium
• SemiBold 600Special Gothic SemiBold
• Bold 700Special Gothic Bold

Special 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.

About Special Gothic

Special Gothic is a sans serif in the grotesque mould, with plain, slightly compact letters and little stroke contrast. In the specimen the curves of a, c, e and s close in toward horizontal endings, the a is double-storey, the R has a straight diagonal leg and the numerals are straight-sided, which gives text an even, workmanlike texture. The family is a single variable file with two axes. Weight runs from 400 to 700 with four named weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. Width runs from 75 to 125, so the same file yields condensed, normal and expanded settings. There is no italic. The font has 531 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. Alistair McCready is the designer, the name table lists Monolith as manufacturer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Special Gothic works

Interface labels and body copy

Regular and Medium at normal width give a neutral text sans, with Bold for emphasis.

Condensed headlines

At width 75 the letters narrow, so a long headline fits a column without shrinking the type.

Expanded titles

At width 125 a short word spreads into a wide display line.

Editorial systems

Because width is an axis, navigation, captions and headings can each take a different width from one file.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Special 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 Special 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: "Special Gothic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpecialGothic-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Special 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=Special+Gothic:wght@400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Special Gothic is upright only; software will slant it artificially if italic is requested.

Regular is the lightest weight

The weight axis runs from 400 to 700, with nothing lighter than Regular or heavier than Bold.

Width goes both ways

The width axis runs from 75 to 125 around a default of 100, so the font can be both narrowed and widened.

FAQs

Collections with Special Gothic

• Grotesque sans-serif fonts

  Grotesque and neo-grotesque sans-serif families: plain, sturdy, slightly irregular workhorses for branding, editorial design and interfaces.

Similar fonts

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