Gelasio

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Specification

Designer

Eben Sorkin

Released

2019

Category

Serif

Alternative to

Georgia

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Body text, Documents, Screen reading, Editorial

Weights

400, 500, 600, 700

Styles

Normal, Italic

Variable

Yes

Glyphs

1,070

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese

Download size

193 KB

Source

github.com/SorkinType/Gelasio

Questions

Is Gelasio free for commercial use?

Yes. Gelasio 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 Gelasio in a logo?

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

How do I install Gelasio?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files 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. Gelasio is a variable font: those files carry all 4 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Gelasio that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 8 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.

Does Gelasio support Turkish?

Yes. Gelasio 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 Gelasio support?

Gelasio covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 1,070 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

What weights does Gelasio come in?

Gelasio comes in 4 weights: Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600) and Bold (700). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Gelasio?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 62 KB against 78 KB for the complete file, 21% 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 Gelasio as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is gelasio.woff2, and it is about 78 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.

Which Gelasio styles are metrically compatible with Georgia?

Four of them: regular, italic, bold and bold italic. Those are the four styles Georgia itself ships, and in those Gelasio uses the same character widths, so a document or a web page keeps its line breaks. The variable font also gives you the weights in between — around 500 and 600 — and those are new, with nothing in Georgia to match. Use them freely for headings and interface work, but not when the point of choosing Gelasio was to preserve somebody else's layout.