GT Zirkon
Family overview
- Ultra Light Italic
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Book Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Black Italic
- Ultra LightRadioactive dating shows that the zircon crystals were formed more than 4 billion years ago.
- Ultra Light ItalicZircons from Jack Hills in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, have yielded U-Pb ages up to 4.404 billion years
- ThinRadioactive dating shows that the zircon crystals were formed more than 4 billion years ago.
- Thin ItalicZircon is a common accessory to trace mineral constituent of most granite and felsic igneous rocks.
- LightZirconium is a chemical element with symbol Zr and atomic number 40.
- Light ItalicCurrently, zircons are typically dated by uranium-lead (U-Pb), fission-track, cathodoluminescence, and U+Th/He techniques.
- BookConnected to internal radiation damage, these processes partially disrupt the crystal structure and partly explain the highly variable properties of zircon.
- Book ItalicThe green coloring in many rounded pebbles usually indicates the Zircon is radioactive variety.
- RegularThe abundance and diversity of minerals is controlled directly by their chemistry, in turn dependent on elemental abundances in the Earth.
- Regular ItalicAn interesting habit occasionally exhibited in Zircon from a few localities is that their color darkens and their luster dulls upon prolonged exposure to sunlight.
- MediumThe abundance and diversity of minerals is controlled directly by their chemistry, in turn dependent on elemental abundances in the Earth.
- Medium ItalicThe name zircon is taken from the name of the mineral zircon, the most important source of zirconium.
- BoldZircon is an important gemstone, with several color forms used in various forms of jewelry.
- Bold ItalicChemical substitution and coordination polyhedra explain this common feature of minerals.
- BlackThe abundance and diversity of minerals is controlled directly by their chemistry, in turn dependent on elemental abundances in the Earth.
- Black ItalicMineral classification schemes and their definitions are evolving to match recent advances in mineral science.
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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
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GT Zirkon in use

