GT Era
Family overview
- Display
- Thin Oblique
- Light Oblique
- Regular Oblique
- Medium Oblique
- Bold Oblique
- Heavy Oblique
- Black Oblique
- Text
- Thin Oblique
- Light Oblique
- Regular Oblique
- Medium Oblique
- Bold Oblique
- Heavy Oblique
- Black Oblique
Subfamilies
- Display ThinEven I was gripped by a kind of timidity bordering on fear when it came to leaving “the world of will and idea”, in which I had lived and worked and in the reality of which I had believed.
- Display Thin ObliqueIn 1919, I lived in Vienna, lost among the depressed conformists of the postwar period. Coming from a farm in the agricultural center of Hungary, I was less intrigued with the baroque pompousness of the Austrian capital than with the highly developed technology of industrial Germany.
- Display LightThis meant evolving goods specifically designed for mass-production. Our object was to eliminate every drawback of the machine without sacrificing any one of its real advantages.
- Display Light ObliqueThe creative human being knows (and suffers from it) that the inherent values of life are being destroyed under the pressure of moneymaking, competition, and trade.
- Display RegularHis style in architecture and consumer goods was to be functional, cheap and consistent with mass production.
- Display Regular ObliqueThe creative human being knows (and suffers from it) that the inherent values of life are being destroyed under the pressure of moneymaking, competition, and trade.
- Display MediumThe prime essential for fruitful collaboration on the part of our pupils was a complete understanding of the aims that have inspired the New Architecture.
- Display Medium ObliqueOne should not imagine that these relationships are to be taken literally, and, above all, should not believe that they can determine the compositional idea.
- Display BoldERNST MAY, Mitarbeiter KAUFMANN, Frankfurt am Main, Siedlung Praunheim bei Frankfurt am Main (1926)
- Display Bold ObliqueIn 1919, I lived in Vienna, lost among the depressed conformists of the postwar period. Coming from a farm in the agricultural center of Hungary, I was less intrigued with the baroque pompousness of the Austrian capital than with the highly developed technology of industrial Germany.
- Display HeavyNot the single piece of work, nor the highest individual attainment must be emphasized, but instead the creation of the commonly usable type, development toward “standards”.
- Display Heavy ObliqueRecognized for his invention of bicycle-handlebar-inspired tubular steel furniture, Breuer lived off his design fees at a time in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the architectural commissions he was looking for were few and far between.
- Display BlackBut the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.
- Display Black ObliqueIn 1920, Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and became a faculty member in 1922, teaching the principles of handicrafts.
- Settings
Typeface information
GT Era reimagines the warmth and idiosyncrasies of early grotesk typefaces for our own era. These pre-modernist tools were being pushed to their extremes in the radical designs of the modernist movements—like Bauhaus and De Stijl—of the period. The typeface shuns neutrality and embraces friction, championing recognition over uniformity and flavor over conformity.
Typeface features
OpenType features enable smart typography. You can use these features in most Desktop applications, on the web, and in your mobile apps. Each typeface contains different features. Below are the most important features included in GT Era’s fonts:
- SS01
- Alternate g
Painting
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