Climate Crisis

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Specification

Designer

Daniel Coull, Eino Korkala

Released

2020

Category

Display

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Posters, Campaign material, Headlines, Editorial display

Weights

400

Styles

Normal

Variable

No

Glyphs

3,499

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended

Download size

1.2 MB

Source

github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/climatecrisis

Questions

Is Climate Crisis free for commercial use?

Yes. Climate Crisis is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.

Can I use Climate Crisis in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Climate Crisis belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Daniel Coull, Eino Korkala. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Climate Crisis?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.

Does Climate Crisis support Turkish?

Yes. Climate Crisis includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.

What languages does Climate Crisis support?

Climate Crisis covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic and Cyrillic Extended, across 3,499 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Does Climate Crisis support Cyrillic?

Yes. Climate Crisis includes the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Cyrillic Extended set as well, which adds the letters for languages beyond Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian. This was read from the font file itself. The complete WOFF2 and the zip both carry it; only the Latin-only web file leaves it out.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Climate Crisis?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 61 KB against 627 KB for the complete file, 90% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Climate Crisis as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is climate-crisis.woff2, and it is about 627 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.

Why does this page say Climate Crisis is not a variable font when it has an axis?

Because its axis is not weight. The file is a variable font with a single axis called YEAR that runs from 1979 to 2050, and this site records a font as variable when one file carries a range of weights, which this one does not — it has one weight and a timeline. Marking it variable here would tell you that you can slide between weights in the download, and you cannot. To use the axis, install the font and set font-variation-settings: "YEAR" 2050 on the web, or move the YEAR slider in any application that shows variable axes. The specimen above is the 1979 end, which is the default the file ships with.