Gelasio
Designed By
Eben Sorkin
8 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Gelasio · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Gelasio ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
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A Page In Gelasio
Gelasio · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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A document written in Georgia can be opened in Gelasio and every line breaks in the same place. That was the brief. Eben Sorkin made the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic match Georgia’s metrics, so the advance widths line up and a layout built around 1 font survives the switch to the other. That counts on any system where Georgia is missing.
The letters themselves are his own. He started from an original printed sample of a French transitional type, a descendant of the Romain du Roi introduced in 1702, and that lineage shows in a certain planned, rational quality. Sorkin rounded the terminals, which warms it up, and there is the odd flourish, more of them in the italics.
Medium and Semi Bold were added between the 2 Georgia weights, each with its italic, for 8 styles in all.
Language coverage grew in a June 2022 update, and in March 2024 the African Latin set was improved with better diacritics, along with fixes to currency symbols and other details. In the font you also find:
- old style and lining figures, tabular or proportional, plus a slashed zero
- fractions and superscripts
For a long article on the web we would pick it over Georgia for the Medium and Semi Bold, which give headings a step between Regular and Bold.
Characters & Figures
918 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Gelasio
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 462 KB ↓- Version
- 1.008
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/gelasio/gelasio.css">
body {
font-family: 'Gelasio', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Gelasio Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.