GT Zirkon
Family overview
- Ultra Light Italic
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Book Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Black Italic
- Ultra LightZircon is a common accessory to trace mineral constituent of most granite and felsic igneous rocks.
- Ultra Light ItalicChemical substitution and coordination polyhedra explain this common feature of minerals.
- ThinNew York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live.
- Thin ItalicManly P. Hall and other students of esoteric wisdom have also noted that many ancient crystals were produced by ‘zodiacal formulae’ grown at specific times, when the sun, moon and planets were in special heavenly positions.
- LightCurrently, zircons are typically dated by uranium-lead (U-Pb), fission-track, cathodoluminescence, and U+Th/He techniques.
- Light ItalicThe dark brown to black color observed in most Zircon crystals is caused from iron oxide impurities.
- BookMineral classification schemes and their definitions are evolving to match recent advances in mineral science.
- Book ItalicMineral classification schemes and their definitions are evolving to match recent advances in mineral science.
- RegularAustralia leads the world in zircon mining, producing 37% of the world total and accounting for 40% of world EDR for the mineral.
- Regular ItalicScientists then studied the diamonds’ composition, looking specifically at their carbon isotopes.
- MediumChemical substitution and coordination polyhedra explain this common feature of minerals.
- Medium ItalicCommercially valuable minerals and rocks are referred to as industrial minerals.
- BoldZircons from Jack Hills in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, have yielded U-Pb ages up to 4.404 billion years
- Bold ItalicRadioactive dating shows that the zircon crystals were formed more than 4 billion years ago.
- BlackZircon often contains traces of radioactive elements in its structure, which causes it to be metamict.
- Black ItalicSome rocks, such as limestone or quartzite, are composed primarily of one mineral—calcite or aragonite in the case of limestone, and quartz in the latter case.
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Typeface information
GT Zirkon is an extravagant sans serif workhorse. It blends the worlds of rational tool and ornamentation by applying techniques used to optimize type for small sizes in a refined way.
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 Zirkon’s fonts:
- SS01
- Alternate Arrows
Volume ↗
- SS02
- Alternate f
Refraction
- ONUM
- Oldstyle Figures
0123456789
- SMCP
- Small Caps
Ore Deposit
Typeface Minisite


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GT Zirkon in use

