GT Alpina
Family overview
- Condensed
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Standard
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Extended
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Fine Condensed
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Fine Standard
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Fine Extended
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Typewriter
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
Subfamilies
- Standard Thin1:50.000 Since 1994, routes are coloured on these maps. It is marketed as for hikers, Alpinists, cyclists, planners, tourists and explorers.
- Standard Thin ItalicThe three towns and their communes which surround Mont Blanc are Courmayeur in Aosta Valley, Italy; and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains and Chamonix in Haute-Savoie, France
- Standard LightIn its most important stretch, over a length of four kilometers it climbs a height of 300 meters in 24 hairpin bends.
- Standard Light ItalicErnst Reiss was a member of the 1956 Swiss Everest–Lhotse expedition. At the end of April and start of May, the expedition erected some high camps.
- Standard RegularThe most notable feature of the Eiger is its 1,800-metre-high north face of rock and ice, named Eiger-Nordwand, which is the biggest north face in the Alps.
- Standard Regular ItalicTogether with Ernst Reiss he made the first ascent of Lhotse (8,516 m), the fourth highest mountain in the world, on 18 May 1956.
- Standard MediumJass, first mentioned in Switzerland in 1796, was originally the name of the highest trump, the Jack.
- Standard Medium ItalicSince 1907 Women are not allowed in the Swiss Alpine Club
- Standard BoldThe Matterhorn hut was built in 1865, the Mountet in 1871, the Weisshorn Hut in 1876, the Concordia on the Aletsch glacier and the Boval hut in 1877.
- Standard Bold ItalicThe Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km, has about a volume of 15.4 km3, and covers about 81.7 km2in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais.
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Typeface information
GT Alpina proudly calls itself a workhorse serif, but delights in playing with the very meaning of that concept. It reaches into the grab bag of typographic history to resurrect shapes some may falsely see as too expressive, resulting in a meticulous family melding these distinct shapes with a pragmatic execution.
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 Alpina’s fonts:
- SS01
- Alternate J
Jungfrau
- SS02
- Alternate ?
¿Ascensión?
- SS03
- Alternate &
Piz & Palü
- SS04
- Alternate @
M@terhorn
- ONUM
- Oldstyle Figures
0123456789
- SMCP
- Small Caps
Greina Pass
Typeface Minisite


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GT Alpina in use