GT Zirkon
Family overview
- Ultra Light Italic
- Thin Italic
- Light Italic
- Book Italic
- Regular Italic
- Medium Italic
- Bold Italic
- Black Italic
- Ultra LightAn interesting habit occasionally exhibited in Zircon from a few localities is that their color darkens and their luster dulls upon prolonged exposure to sunlight.
- Ultra Light ItalicZircons from Jack Hills in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, have yielded U-Pb ages up to 4.404 billion years
- ThinThe abundance and diversity of minerals is controlled directly by their chemistry, in turn dependent on elemental abundances in the Earth.
- Thin ItalicSome rocks, such as limestone or quartzite, are composed primarily of one mineral—calcite or aragonite in the case of limestone, and quartz in the latter case.
- LightChemical substitution and coordination polyhedra explain this common feature of minerals.
- Light ItalicCommercially valuable minerals and rocks are referred to as industrial minerals.
- BookNew York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live.
- Book ItalicManly P. Hall and other students of esoteric wisdom have also noted that many ancient crystals were produced by ‘zodiacal formulae’ grown at specific times, when the sun, moon and planets were in special heavenly positions.
- RegularSilicon and oxygen constitute approximately 75% of the Earth’s crust, which translates directly into the predominance of silicate minerals.
- Regular ItalicYellow, orange and red zircon is also known as “hyacinth”, from the flower hyacinthus, whose name is of Ancient Greek origin.
- MediumMineral classification schemes and their definitions are evolving to match recent advances in mineral science.
- Medium ItalicThe green coloring in many rounded pebbles usually indicates the Zircon is radioactive variety.
- BoldZircons from Jack Hills in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, have yielded U-Pb ages up to 4.404 billion years
- Bold ItalicMinerals can be described by their various physical properties, which are related to their chemical structure and composition.
- BlackCrystals are almost always terminated with a pyramidal termination, and may be doubly terminated, and occasionally entirely pyramidal resembling an octahedron.
- Black 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.
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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.
- Designed by Tobias Rechsteiner
- Released in 2018
- Available in 16 styles
- GT Zirkon is available for customization and language extensions
- Download the free trial fonts
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
Typeface Minisite
- Visit the GT Zirkon minisite to discover more about the typeface family’s history and design concept.
GT Zirkon in use
