Overused Grotesk

Do you want a free alternative to Helvetica because you refuse to pay good money for high-quality typefaces, or that you think neo-grotesk Swiss-like type design is peak minimalism? Then this is probably a good choice.

Overused Grotesk is heavily based off the classic neo-grotesque type design, especially the epic look of the ubiquitous typeface, Helvetica. It may look like the other thousand neo-grotesque typefaces out there, but I can guarantee that "it has its own charm and uniqueness".

If you like this typeface, download it, store it in your library, use it, share it with someone.

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Styles

Style name	wght	wdth	slnt	-	Style name	wght	wdth	slnt
Light	300	100	0	-	Light Italic	300	100	-10
Book	350	100	0	-	Book Italic	350	100	-10
Roman	400	100	0	-	Italic	400	100	-10
Medium	500	100	0	-	Medium Italic	500	100	-10
SemiBold	600	100	0	-	SemiBold Italic	600	100	-10
Bold	700	100	0	-	Bold Italic	700	100	-10
ExtraBold	800	100	0	-	ExtraBold Italic	800	100	-10
Black	900	100	0	-	Black Italic	900	100	-10

Plans

• Ligatures (not necessary)
• Cyrillic next?
• Small caps
• Building more accented letters (Latin-specific)
• More currency symbols
• New widths? Compressed + Condensed + Extended + ExtraExtended (build Compressed & ExtraExtended then just interpolate from there)
• Hinting (might just use ttfautohint)
• Webfont support + css code
• New styles? Mono, Text, Micro? maybe not yet

⏳ In progress

• Kerning (LATIN, NUMBERS, etc.)
• IPA
  • Letters ✅
  • Accents ⏳
• Italics - 'slnt' axis
  • Basic Latin ✅ (27/08/2023)

✅ Completed tasks

• Add diacritical marks & accented characters (Vietnamese support)✅ (05/08/2023)
• Stylistic set + Accented characters ✅ (08/08/2023)
• Sub- & superscript, denominators & numerators, slashed zero, tabular figures ✅ (14/08/2023)
• Trying to figure out why Black weight has massive vertical height ✅ (20/08/2023)
• Circled + squared numbers (Character variant 01 - 04) ✅ (20/08/2023)
  • 'cv01': Negative squared numbers
  • 'cv02': Squared numbers
  • 'cv03': Negative circled numbers
  • 'cv04': Circled numbers
• Uniwidth ✅ (24/08/2023)
  • Auto-kerned. Can't be bothered to manually kern (lol).
• Arrows ✅ (25/08/2023)

License

This project is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. If necessary, please save or print this document for future references.

Contributing

You can contribute to this project by opening an issue, creating a pull request, or by directly editing the source.

For more information, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Additional documentation

This section is just here for additional references.

• Donny Trương's Vietnamese Typography book
• Monotype's Glossary of Typographic Terms and Definitions
• Cyrillic Local Forms
• Google's Google Fonts Documentation (if this typeface's going to GF, which I doubt)
• RoboFont's Creating designspace files with designSpaceLib
• fontTools' Creating a designspace