Jost

Designed by Owen Earl

9 weights • Version 20 • On Google Fonts since 2020 • Popularity #49

Quick Summary

18

Styles · incl. italic

100-900

Weight Range

1

Variable axis

3

Languages / Subsets

Category
sans-serif
Best for
textdisplayui
Variable axes
Weight
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Origin
Germany
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 10, 2025

© 2020 The Jost Project Authors

The quick brown fox

32px

About Jost Fonts

Jost is an original font created by indestructible type*. It is inspired by 1920s German sans-serifs. This is version 3.7. Jost is designed and maintained by Owen Earl, who is the creator of the font foundry indestructible type*. in 2020 Owen Earl, and Mirko Velimirovic worked together to make Jost a variable font.

If you have questions or want to help out, please contribute at github.com/indestructible-type/Jost.

Who Designed Jost?

Owen Earl portrait

Owen Earl

Owen Earl is a type designer who thrives on high quality, versatile, modern typography that is accessible to everybody. He is running indestructible type*, a foundry focusing on recreating historical bestseller fonts, distributing them for free with a full range of widths and styles.

Homepage

Google FontsSource CodeOfficial Website

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