With moderate stroke contrast and unusual shapes, Gregory Text reinterprets the historical aesthetic of early Slab Serif metal types to fit today’s demands. The result is a typography that prefers home touches and obvious ink-traps to ‘rational’ geometry. The family’s warmth is reflected in its chunky, softly-curved serifs and square-ish, doughy countershapes; and even in its more-delicate lighter weights.
Exaggerating details, sharpening edges and pushing and prodding at counterforms for micro-sizes, Gregory Text draws on W. A. Dwiggings’ M-formula. This gives rise to Gregory Text’s quirky looks and excellent legibility: it can comfortably carry complex texts with a cosy vibe. Crafted for flavourful small text, it’s equally effective at larger scales — the robust detailing standing out in headlines.
Gregory Text’s matching italics are spirited, sharply-curved shapes that create a stable, but lively texture: reinforcing its delightful appeal for micro-text and Baroque top-heaviness. Functional and approachable, this is a workhorse for serious and informal typography: whatever you write, Gregory makes it charming.
Case sensitive forms, standard ligatures, contextual ligatures, proportional lining figures, proportional oldstyle figures, tabular lining figures, tabular oldstyle figures, ordinals, fractions, denominator, numerator, subscript / inferiors, superscript / superiors, slashed zero, ten stylistic sets
Afrikaans, Azeri (cyr), Azeri (lat), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ingush, Italian, Kazakh, Kurdish (lat), Kyrghiz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian (cyr), Mongolian (cyr), Mongolian (lat), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tadzhik, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek (lat)