Gideon Roman

Classification

Font Technology

Static font

1 weight, 1 style

How To Use Gideon Roman

To use Gideon Roman in your web project, either search Google Fonts and use their embed code or host the font on your server and use the CSS below. Note: fonts served by Google Fonts may be missing some OpenType features that are available in the original font.

Download Gideon Roman

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Gideon Roman';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>GideonRoman-Regular.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
}

Description

Based on a Roman character set, Gideon is a traditional typeface with classic forms. Perfect for uses from invitations, greeting cards and menus, to display advertising. The upper case letters have a tradition Roman feel that adds warmth and sophistication to text while the legibility allows for larger blocks of copy to be easily read. Gideon comes with Latin Character sets including Western, Central, and Vietnamese language support. To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/gideon .

Designer

Robert Leuschke

Founder and CEO of TypeSETit, Rob Leuschke is a graphic designer, lettering artist and type designer based just outside of St. Louis, MO, USA. Spanning nearly four decades, Rob’s work has consisted mostly of producing lettering and graphics for packaging, logos, and social expression products.

Copyright

OpenType Features

Caps to small caps

Discretionary ligatures

Fractions

Standard ligatures

Oldstyle figures

Ordinals

Small caps

Superscript

Related Fonts

Font Size

Gideon Roman regular

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.

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Numerals

oldstyle-nums

0123456789 0123456789

Arbitrary Fractions

diagonal-fractions

1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678

Small caps

small-caps

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Caps to small caps

'c2sc' 1

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Discretionary ligatures

default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1

Fractions

default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1

1/4

1/2

3/4

Standard ligatures

font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1

ffi

ffl

Ordinals

default css
font-feature-settings: "ordn" 1

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