GT Standard

Concept

GT Standard is built on simplicity and precision. Its design distills typography to its purest form, using basic, geometrically-inspired forms to create a versatile, highly adaptable type system.

Stripped of excess, its construction balances clarity, efficiency, and function. This ensures a seamless fit across applications.

Design

Weight

Optical

Anatomy

The design starts with the fundamentals: squares, circles, and triangles. Finding harmony between counters and letter spacing, this geometric foundation shapes a typeface that is structured yet fluid, offering both consistency and flexibility.

Efficiency

Efficiency is central to the design. A tall x-height minimizes visual disparity between upper and lowercase letters. This helps maintain readability in dense layouts. Short descenders allow for tighter leading, optimizing space without sacrificing clarity. This fine-tuned balance ensures economical typesetting while preserving the visual impact it delivers.

Minimalism

The typeface embraces minimalism through the intention and precision of its design choices. By focusing on essential forms and eliminating excess, it achieves clarity and functionality. Its refined construction ensures seamless integration into any design, acting as a sophisticated yet unobtrusive typographic tool.

Dynamic

Subtle curves and refined proportions give the design a dynamic presence. Horizontal elements establish a calm, structured tone, while circular details inject warmth and approachability. This interplay of rigid and rounded forms makes the typeface both precise and expressive.

GT Standard L 26.4vw

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GT Standard L 19.2vw

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GT Standard L 11.4vw

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Rooted in the ethos of clarity, function, and shared language, this is a modernist initiative to establish a unified system of visual standards across disciplines. Through modular structures, typographic consistency, and a rigorously defined grid, the project seeks to eliminate ambiguity and elevate communication to a universal plane. Rooted in the ethos of clarity, function, and shared language, this is a modernist initiative to establish a unified system of visual standards across disciplines.

GT Standard M 24px

Applied across editorial layouts, digital interfaces, wayfinding systems, and institutional identities, this framework provides a stable foundation for both consistency and scalability. It enables designers, writers, engineers to work within a common visual language, reducing friction and reinforcing cohesion.

GT Standard L 7vw

Systematic Universal Programs

Variable Typographic System

Four heavy-duty axes with 126 upright and 126 oblique styles — all together in one big variable font. And we haven’t even touched on the 84 monospaced styles. GT Standard is a systematized typographic workhorse built on four variable axes: weight, width, slant, and optical size.

These four defining cornerstones allow the typeface to live up to its name, delivering a tool that sets the standard in both function and expression. Whatever the size, setting, or scale of application.

System

Weight Axis

The typeface’s weight axis is a carefully defined curve that creates seven seamless weights. This mathematical approach ensures smooth transitions, balanced forms, and consistent clarity.

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900

GT Standard’s finely tuned weights are designed to harmoniously sit side by side with a consistent relation to one another. This allows for clear, controlled contrast between weights, ideal for building complex typographic hierarchies common in contemporary design.

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regular

medium

semibold

bold

heavy

black

Optical Axis

GT Standard’s optical sizes fine-tune letter proportions for clarity at every size. By adjusting counters, spacing, and weight distribution, words remain clean and clear in small text and striking at larger sizes. This ensures legibility and consistency across all applications.

What works well at large sizes — like tight spacing and dramatic contrast — often breaks down at smaller scales. And the reverse is true too. Forms optimized for small text can feel dull or too loose when scaled up. GT Standard solves this automatically. With the automatic optical sizing feature, the typeface adapts in real time. No manual tweaking needed.

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4vw 20px

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8vw 40px

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10vw 48px

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12vw 64px

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15vw 96px

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19vw 120px

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GT Standard L 50px

This ensures legibility and consistency across all applications.

GT Standard M 30px

This ensures legibility and consistency across all applications.

GT Standard S 15px

This ensures legibility and consistency across all applications.

Distinction

Legibility relies on clear character differentiation. GT Standard enhances this through subtle design choices that ensure distinct letterforms. This prevents confusion between similar characters, reduces reading fatigue, and improves usability in any context.

Common culprits like e and a or c and o can blur together at smaller sizes. GT Standard avoids this with precise apertures and counter shapes that stay open and readable, even when scaled down.

Reading

Across the family, the typeface’s design enhances reading flow by supporting pattern recognition — the way our eyes identify word shapes and line patterns. Balanced counters and precise letter spacing create clear, distinct word forms, making long texts easier to read.

Color

Consistent typographic color is key to readability. The typeface’s design maintains balance through optical adjustments like ink traps and tapering, preventing text from appearing too dense (or too light). This results in a uniform, balanced aesthetic at any size.

Width Axis

The meatiest of its axes, the typeface’s variable width radically transforms the geometric, circular base of the Standard width. By morphing into more oval-based forms in its narrow and extended extremes, GT Standard is both functional and visually unified.

0 compressed

37 condensed

75 narrow

100 standard

125 extended

150 expanded

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Compact

GT Standard’s Condensed style is optimized for tight spaces while maintaining the typeface’s strong geometric clarity. Compressed takes this a step further, refining proportions while keeping legibility intact, with alternate forms like S and J enhancing clarity.

Regular

Narrow sits between Standard and Condensed. It’s a space-saving alternative that maintains the open, proportional feel of the core family, without adopting the more compact forms of the Condensed or Compressed styles.

The standard width is the foundation of GT Standard’s design. Balanced and versatile, it provides a stable and adaptable typographic core as the type family’s base.

Wide

On the other end, the Extended and Expanded styles introduce elongated forms with oval-based structures. These wider cuts command attention without losing the typeface’s structured consistency and adaptability.

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Such an extensive system for
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GT Standard M 20px

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Standardization is the process of implementing and developing technical
standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms,
users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments.
Standardization can help maximize compatibility, interoperability, safety,
repeatability, efficiency, and quality. It can also facilitate a normalization
of formerly custom processes. The process of standardization can itself be
standardized. There are at least four levels of standardization: compatibility,

GT Standard S 10px

width: 100

Standardization is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based
on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards
organizations and governments. Standardization can help maximize compatibility,
interoperability, safety, repeatability, efficiency, and quality. It can also facilitate
a normalization of formerly custom processes. The process of standardization can itself be
standardized. There are at least four levels of standardization: compatibility,
interchangeability, commonality and reference. These standardization processes create
compatibility, similarity, measurement, and symbol standards.

Mono

GT Standard’s Monospace applies its geometric precision to a fixed-width environment. Each character is carefully adjusted for even spacing and readability, retaining the proportional typeface’s clarity while ensuring functional consistency. Each width fits neatly into the larger modular system, reinforcing the family’s underlying grid logic.

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Each monospace width is a precise multiple of a base unit, becoming part of an overarching modular system, reinforcing the grid logic at the core of its design. Few mono families go this far in exploring how structure, rhythm, and scalability can coexist.

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light

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Designing a monospaced typeface means rethinking proportions to fit every character into the same width. That constraint leads to unconventional solutions like adding baseline serifs to the i and l for clarity, or giving the r a full semicircle to balance space. These adjustments preserve legibility while embracing the strict logic of a mono grid.

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Designed to Expand

From the start, GT Standard was designed as a platform for customization. Its underlying structure makes it easy to expand, including styles, widths, or even writing systems.

It is a living project, built to grow in step with evolving needs and ideas. This project is only getting started.

Platform

Icons

The type family’s icons reflect its geometric foundation. Designed to align seamlessly with GT Standard’s visual language, they maintain balance and clarity, reinforcing its rational structure.

Pictograms

The typeface features a series of pictograms to kickstart your user interface designs with a clear, no-nonsense look. All pictograms are designed to match the typeface’s geometry — whether you need to show a clock, user, settings, or calendar icon, GT Standard’s got you covered.

🌐

U+1F310

🎤

U+1F464

👁

U+1F441

⚙

U+1F3A4

💬

U+1F4AC



U+F242

👤

U+F4FA





🕑

🔊

🔍

📅

📌

🔇

⚐

✉



🤍



🔗

🕟

🗀

😊

U+1F60A

Enclosed Letters

The enclosed letter glyphs — available in square and circular forms — are ideal for wayfinding, UI, and type-led layouts. They offer clear, contained shapes that stand out in dense interfaces or signage systems.

Ⓖ

U+24BC

🅃

U+24C9

⓿

U+24FF

❶

U+2776

❷

U+2777

❸

U+2778

🅖

🅡

🅐

🅟

🅗

🅘

🅒

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🅘

🅙

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🅝

🅞

🅟

🅠

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🅢

🅣

🅤

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🅦

🅧

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🄰

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Features

GT Standard includes practical and versatile typesetting features, like the choice between single-story and double-story designs for a and g, or circular and rectangular dots. Stylistic sets allow for subtle shifts in tone or function. In the Compressed styles, alternates for J, t, f, and r feature extended hooks that make full use of the narrow width — improving balance, legibility, and rhythm in tight layouts.

Range

Variant

Quality!

Doppelgänger

My alter ego

Inspiration

compressed alternates

Juxtapose

Juxtaposition

replicant

format

Encoding

Across the 336-style family, GT Standard supports over 300 Latin-alphabet languages, covering a wide range of languages from around the world.

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Basic Latin

Extended Latin

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Ẅ

Ẁ

Ỳ

ẞ

i̇

ẃ

ẅ

ẁ

ỳ

Numbers and Punctuations

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Alternate Characters

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Ọ

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GT Canon

GT Canon is GT Standard’s upcoming serif counterpart, sharing the same commitment to versatility, consistency, and clarity. Designed as a companion system, it brings the same standardized logic to a serif context, expanding the system’s reach while staying true to its core principles.

Summary

GT Standard is a study in precision, minimalism, and adaptability. Built from fundamental, geometric shapes, it balances clarity and expression to create a versatile typographic system. Its four variable axes — weight, width, optical size, and slant — forge a dynamic range of styles, ensuring seamless transitions and consistent readability across any scale or medium.

From compact compressed cuts to colorful expanded styles, GT Standard remains elastic, embodying functional modernism while serving as a timeless tool for contemporary typography.

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Free Trials

Download all 336 trial fonts of GT Standard along with the rest of the Grilli Type fonts library. This allows you to try out our fonts before buying any licensing.

Purchase License

You can purchase both single styles and subfamily and complete family packages. The full family package contains both proportional and monospaced variable fonts.

Customization

Let’s work together. Contact us to discuss your project’s needs and requirements.

Typeface Credits

Design by Grilli Type: Noël Leu, Reto Moser, Katja Schimmel, and Lorenzo Poderini. Production with Christoph Köberlin.

Website Credits

Website design and development by Grilli Type: Noël Leu, Sasha Fominskaya, Jules Janssen, Marco Land, Thierry Blancpain. Copywriting by Harry Bennett.