GT Zirkon
Family overview
- Ultra Light Italic
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Book Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Black Italic
- Ultra LightThe English word “zircon” is derived from “Zirkon”, which is the German adaptation of this word.
- Ultra Light ItalicThe name zircon is taken from the name of the mineral zircon, the most important source of zirconium.
- ThinThe English word “zircon” is derived from “Zirkon”, which is the German adaptation of this word.
- Thin ItalicCurrently, zircons are typically dated by uranium-lead (U-Pb), fission-track, cathodoluminescence, and U+Th/He techniques.
- LightCurrently, zircons are typically dated by uranium-lead (U-Pb), fission-track, cathodoluminescence, and U+Th/He techniques.
- Light ItalicThe abundance and diversity of minerals is controlled directly by their chemistry, in turn dependent on elemental abundances in the Earth.
- BookZircon is mainly consumed as an opacifier, and has been known to be used in the decorative ceramics industry.
- Book ItalicThe green coloring in many rounded pebbles usually indicates the Zircon is radioactive variety.
- RegularZircon is an important gemstone, with several color forms used in various forms of jewelry.
- Regular ItalicRecent experiments, for example, have shown that crystals grow five times faster when their supersaturated solution is subjected to frequencies of 10 to 100 cycles a second.
- MediumCrystals are almost always terminated with a pyramidal termination, and may be doubly terminated, and occasionally entirely pyramidal resembling an octahedron.
- Medium ItalicCurrently, zircons are typically dated by uranium-lead (U-Pb), fission-track, cathodoluminescence, and U+Th/He techniques.
- BoldYellow, orange and red zircon is also known as “hyacinth”, from the flower hyacinthus, whose name is of Ancient Greek origin.
- Bold ItalicCommercially valuable minerals and rocks are referred to as industrial minerals.
- BlackMineral classification schemes and their definitions are evolving to match recent advances in mineral science.
- Black ItalicZircon is mainly consumed as an opacifier, and has been known to be used in the decorative ceramics industry.
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Typeface information
GT Zirkon is an extravagant sans serif workhorse. It blends the worlds of rational tool and ornamentation by applying techniques used to optimize type for small sizes in a refined way.
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 Zirkon’s fonts:
- SS01
- Alternate Arrows
Volume ↗
- SS02
- Alternate f
Refraction
- ONUM
- Oldstyle Figures
0123456789
- SMCP
- Small Caps
Ore Deposit
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GT Zirkon in use

