Top 5 geometric fonts for modern UI
Choosing the “right” font for your design is very important. Every font has specific design intent, communicates certain attributes. There are many fonts out there all fall in four basic font categories serif, sans serifs, script and display/decorative.
Today many technology brands currently deploy geometric fonts that represent minimalism, simplicity, and cleanliness, like — Product Sans by Google, Cereal by Airbnb etc.
Geometric sans-serif typefaces are based on geometric shapes, like near-perfect circles and squares.
Here is a list of 5 premium geometric fonts which are perfect for modern UI and Logo Design.
1. Gilroy
Gilroy is a modern geometric sans serif font. Designed by Radomir Tinkov have more than 20+ weights and style, each weight includes extended language support (+ Cyrillic), fractions, tabular figures, arrows, ligatures and more. Perfectly suited for the modern mobile and web interface. Graphic designer also loves to use it in print design and logo.
Designed by: Radomir Tinkov
Font in use: concentric.design, cred.club,
Paired with: Playfair Display,
Download/Source: myfonts.com
Note: My favourite ❤️
2. Circular Std
Circular is a geometric sans-serif typeface created by Swiss designer Laurenz Brunner and released through Lineto in 2013. Circular is very popular at the moment in web and app design.
The design of the lowercase ‘t’ is very distinctive and makes Circular easy to identify compared to other geometric sans-serifs.
Designed by: Laurenz Brunner
Font in use: Spotify, Airbnb App (2014), internet.org logo, frankandoak.com
Paired with: Lava, Aktiv Grotesk
Download/Source: lineto.com
3. Cera PRO
Cera Pro is supporting pure geometry plus Latin character set. The character set is extensive, covering most European languages, and the family sports a large selection of weights and styles. It also has other families Cera Stencil, Cera Condensed, the hand-crafted display Cera Brush and the soft Cera Round.
Designed by: Jakob Runge (in 2015)
Font in use: greekbasket.gr, www.north2.net
Paired with: FF Tisa,
Download/Source: typemates.com, myfonts.com
Note: It’s a very close alternative to circular
4. Avenir Next
Avenir was originally released in 1988 with three weights, each with a roman and oblique version. Avenir Next Pro is modern take to design beautiful sans font which released in 2004. The most important changes — a new italic design, the addition of new weights and widths, extended language support
Designed by: Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi
Font in use: intuit.com, Snapchat app(2016), Apple, Zomato (2018)
Paired with: Nova, Dante
Download/Source: linotype.com, myfonts.com, readymag.com
5. TT Commons
TT Commons is last in my list. It is a universal sans serif with a minimal contrast of strokes, a closed aperture and geometric shapes of characters. The design of the typeface was designed for the widest possible range of tasks. And widely used for modern web and app interface.
Designed by: Pavel Emelyanov, Ivan Gladkikh, Marina Khodak (2018)
Font in use: typetype.org
Paired with: Nova, Dante, Bodoni
Download/Source: typetype.org, www.myfonts.com, behance.net
‘We did not plan to release TT Commons for sale, but given the number of incoming requests, we changed our decision.’ — TypeType Team
Futura — Origin of geometric fonts?
Futura is the oldest geometric typeface released in 1927 by Paul Renner. All modern geometric font somehow influenced by Futura typeface. After decades, Futura remains an important typeface family and is used on a daily basis for print and digital purposes as both a headline and body font. Today it continues to be a popular typographic choice to express strength, elegance, and conceptual clarity.
Designed by: Paul Renner(1927)
Font in use: Volkswagen ads, Early IKEA, NASA, Marvel Movies, skinnyships, atlanticrecords.com, very big list :)
Paired with: Bodoni, Plantin
Download/Source: myfonts.com
