Golos Text

Designed by Alexandra Korolkova, Vitaly Kuzmin

6 weights • Version 7 • On Google Fonts since 2023 • Popularity #329

Quick Summary

6

Styles

400-900

Weight Range

1

Variable axis

4

Languages / Subsets

Category
sans-serif
Best for
display
Variable axes
Weight
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Origin
Berlin, Germany
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 11, 2025

© 2019 The Golos Text Project Authors

The quick brown fox

32px

About Golos Text Fonts

Golos is a versatile closed sans-serif commissioned by Smena and AIC Media for state and social service websites. Golos Text suits perfectly for continuous reading on screen. It includes five weights from Regular to Black. Golos was designed by Alexandra Korolkova and Vitaly Kuzmin and released by Paratype in 2019.

To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/golos-text.

Who Designed Golos Text?

Alexandra Korolkova portrait

Alexandra Korolkova

Alexandra Korolkova is a type designer, book designer, type researcher and type consultant. She is art director of Paratype and is the 9th recipient of the Prix Charles Peignot (2013). She also won the Granshan, ED Awards and Red Dot.

She is the leading designer of PT Sans and PT Serif, Circe, Golos, and the type system of Sber.

She wrote a book on typography for beginners Live Typography (in Russian) which was first issued in 2007 and re-issued in 2008, 2010 and 2012, and a series of type-related articles. She spoke at ATypI, TYPO Berlin, TypeCon, TYPO Labs, Serebro Nabora, Typofest, Typetersburg and others and she is a jury member of the Modern Cyrillic type design competition since 2014.

nicetype.ru/

Vitaly Kuzmin portrait

Vitaly Kuzmin

Type designer and design auditor at Paratype. Based in Moscow. At Paratype he develops new fonts, conducts design audits, and helps with the systematization and standardization of character sets. Author of PT Root, PT Root UI, Sober Sans, and several custom fonts. Specializing in user interface fonts, he has developed UI font styles for Sberbank’s type system, which got awards from GRANSHAN, Red Dot, and ED Awards.

vitalykuzmin.com

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