Science Gothic
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/science-gothic2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/science-gothic/wght.css';3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Science Gothic Variable", sans-serif;
}Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* science-gothic-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Science Gothic Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/science-gothic:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
}Background & Story
Science Gothic is a 4-axis variable font with a wide design range, allowing it to take on many different looks and uses, from superheroes, action and pulp detectives to business and banking, from science fiction and technology to cosmetics. The basic design is closely modeled on Morris Fuller Benton’s Bank Gothic (1930–34) for American Type Founders. But where Bank Gothic was an all-caps typeface with moderate variation in weight and width, Science Gothic adds a lowercase, true small caps, extensive language coverage (extended Latin and extended Cyrillic), and four design axes: extreme weight and width axes, plus contrast, and slant. Science Gothic is a team effort, by Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev and Brandon Buerkle. Special thanks to Igor Freiberger for his early contributions.
To comment, give feedback or contribute to Science Gothic, visit https:, visit github.com/googlefonts/science-gothic
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/science-gothicDesigned by
Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev, Brandon Buerkle
Links
License
OFL-1.1