What is the Gist font?

Gist from Yellow Design Studio is an inline slab serif with a retro yet modern vibe. It’s a collision between monoline slab and indie script. With 627 glyphs per weight, it’s highly customizable…either keep it simple with the base character set or use ligatures, alternates and swashes for extra flair. All-caps typesettings have an especially retro edge. Line layers are included for adding color to the inline areas. As a bonus, try Gist Light for free! Also available: Gist Rough, the textured letterpress version. More… Opentype Feature Descriptions: Ligatures - Enables the standard ligatures that fix overlapping letters Discretionary Ligatures - Enables the funkier ligatures Contextual Alternates - Enables the alternate caps and q, v, w, x, y, z alternates Swash - Enables the swash caps Stylistic Alternates - Enables the funkier h, k, m, n, v, w, y, z Stylistic Set 1 (Same as Stylistic Alternates) - Enables the funkier h, k, m, n, v, w, y, z Stylistic Set 2 - Enables the end-of-word alternates (terminal forms) Stylistic Set 3 - Enables the alternate round lowercase a Stylistic Set 4 - Enables additional alternate B, D, E, H, M, N, R,T, W, Z, &, d Stylistic Set 5 - Enables additional alternate E, H, M, N, R, Z, d Stylistic Set 6 - Enables additional alternate H, M, N Stylistic Set 7 - Enables additional alternate l, t Stylistic Set 8 - Enables additional alternate l, t Stylistic Set 9 - Enables additional alternate l, t Superscript - Enables the superscript characters Gist Tips: - In Photoshop try different 'anti-aliasing' settings for best results. - In Illustrator if the line layers don't align with the normal layers, change the “First Baseline” setting in the Area Type Options to “Leading”. - Works best with opentype savvy application, especially those with a glyphs palette like InDesign, Illustrator and Quark. All glyphs can also be accessed in any layout software by using the application “PopChar” by Ergonis.

Gist Font families

The Gist includes the following font families:

• Gist Upright Light
• Gist Upright Line Light
• Gist Light
• Gist Line Light
• Gist Upright Regular
• Gist Upright Line Regular
• Gist Regular
• Gist Line Regular
• Gist Upright Bold
• Gist Upright Line Bold
• Gist Bold
• Gist Line Bold
• Gist Upright ExtraBold
• Gist Upright Line ExtraBold
• Gist ExtraBold
• Gist Line ExtraBold
• Gist Upright Black
• Gist Upright Line Black
• Gist Black
• Gist Line Black

Gist Preview

Here is a preview of how Gist will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.