- Heading
- Science Gothic
- Body text
- Lora
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- The body font is made for reading
Science Gothic
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Science Gothic is a free font by Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev, Brandon Buerkle, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 633 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 50% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
Science Gothic is a sans-serif font designed by Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev and Brandon Buerkle, building on Morris Fuller Benton's Bank Gothic design and extending it with a lowercase and additional variation in weight, width and stroke contrast. It is a variable font with 18 styles spanning weights from 100 to 900 and contains 1321 glyphs. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev, Brandon Buerkle
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1321
Character and uses
- Mood
- futuristic
- technical
- Design
- geometric
- wide
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Science Gothic has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 633 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
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- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Mandingo
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
…and 523 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 839
- x-height
- 50% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 1.035
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Kerning
kern - Small capitals
smcp - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (2)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Science+Gothic
- Designer’s page
- sciencegothic.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Science Gothic font free to use?
Yes. Science Gothic is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Science Gothic support Cyrillic?
Yes, Science Gothic includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Science Gothic support?
Science Gothic covers 633 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Science Gothic a variable font?
Yes. Science Gothic is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Science Gothic?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Science Gothic?
Science Gothic was created by Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev, Brandon Buerkle.
What is Science Gothic good for?
Judging by its design, Science Gothic suits: logos, headings, interfaces, video titles and subtitles.
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