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Bismuth

Setup Type · Ondrej Jób · 2012

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Bismuth specimen from Setup Type

A caps-only, no-contrast display typeface with angular, industrial geometry across nine weights plus a free Symbols companion font.

About

Constructed with no stroke contrast and a consistent wide width across all nine weights from Hair to Ultra, Bismuth reads as a geometric, sci-fi display face where upper and lower case pairs share identical widths but differ in construction detail. Both cases are capitalised in form, making weights freely interchangeable without reflow. Coverage extends to over 100 languages via Basic and Extended Latin, and the accompanying Symbols font adds more than 100 arrows, patterns and miscellaneous marks at no additional cost.

Classification

Caps-only, no-contrast, industrially constructed letterforms with angular, sci-fi character explicitly intended for display use place this firmly in the display category with a geometric, constructed subcategory.

Weights

HairThinLightRegularMediumBoldHeavyBlackUltraSymbols

Family

Bismuth Symbols

Languages

LatinLatin Extended

Tags

displaycaps-onlygeometricangularsci-fiindustrialconstructedexperimental