Special Gothic Expanded One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Special Gothic Expanded One Regular

About Special Gothic Expanded One

Special Gothic Expanded One is a sans serif of expanded width and heavy weight, published as a single font. In the specimen the letters are far wider than usual: O is a broad oval, and M and W are broader still. Strokes are thick with only a slight thinning at the joins, terminals are cut horizontally, and the apertures of a, c, e and s are nearly closed, so that words form compact dark bands. The lowercase is tall, which keeps mixed-case headlines even in height. The font is registered as Regular 400, although its colour is that of a bold. It contains 529 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended, with the letters needed for languages such as German, French, Polish and Turkish. Alistair McCready is the designer, and the name table lists Monolith as manufacturer. The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Special Gothic Expanded One works

Two- or three-word poster headlines

Heavy, expanded letters fill the width of a sheet with very few words.

Wordmarks

Flat terminals and nearly closed apertures give a short name a solid, block-like silhouette.

Banners and title bars

The expanded width suits wide formats such as web banners, tickets and video title strips.

Section openers on websites

One large word in Special Gothic Expanded One marks a section, while a narrower text family carries the copy.

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 Expanded One

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 Expanded One 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 Expanded One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpecialGothicExpandedOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Special Gothic Expanded One 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+Expanded+One&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

A single font

Special Gothic Expanded One has no other weights and no italic.

Regular in name, heavy in colour

The font is registered at weight 400, so that is the value a stylesheet has to request.

Width is costly

Because every letter is expanded, a line holds far fewer characters than in a normal-width sans serif.

Latin scripts only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Special Gothic Expanded One

• Wide and extended fonts for headings and logos

  Extended sans-serif and display families whose broad letters give short words presence: for mastheads, wordmarks and section titles.

Similar fonts

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