Science Gothic
Designed by Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev, Brandon Buerkle
9 weights • Version 5 • On Google Fonts since 2025 • Popularity #1510
Quick Summary
9
Styles
100-900
Weight Range
4
Variable axes
5
Languages / Subsets
© 2025 The Science Gothic Project Authors
The quick brown fox
About Science Gothic Fonts
Science Gothic is a 4-axis variable font with a wide design range, allowing it to take on many different looks and uses, from superheroes, action and pulp detectives to business and banking, from science fiction and technology to cosmetics. The basic design is closely modeled on Morris Fuller Benton’s Bank Gothic (1930–34) for American Type Founders. But where Bank Gothic was an all-caps typeface with moderate variation in weight and width, Science Gothic adds a lowercase, true small caps, extensive language coverage (extended Latin and extended Cyrillic), and four design axes: extreme weight and width axes, plus contrast, and slant. Science Gothic is a team effort, by Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev and Brandon Buerkle. Special thanks to Igor Freiberger for his early contributions.
To comment, give feedback or contribute to Science Gothic, visit https:, visit github.com/googlefonts/science-gothic
Who Designed Science Gothic?
Thomas Phinney
Thomas Phinney was born in the USA, grew up in Canada, and lives on the west coast of the USA—since 2009 in Portland. He has an MS in typography and design from RIT, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and four patents. Phinney is the former president of ATypI and its longest-serving board member. He has worked at Adobe, Extensis and as CEO of FontLab. Phinney has designed typefaces for Adobe, Google and others. He is a fonts and typography consultant, and the world’s only font detective, doing forensic typography on issues such as forged documents and point size requirements.
Vassil Kateliev
Vassil Kateliev is a type and graphic designer, and software developer, based in Varna, Bulgaria. With over 15 years in type design, he has created notable type families such as Basil, for which he received an award at GRANSHAN 2014, and co-authored Bolyar for FontMaker, which has now become a staple in the package and labeling industry. Kateliev has collaborated on major projects such as Science Gothic and Material Symbols for Google. His approach blends creativity and technical proficiency. Skilled in type design, engineering and workflow automation, Kateliev often develops his own tools to enhance the design process.
Brandon Buerkle
After earning two undergraduate degrees in art and design, practicing graphic design for over 20 years, and designing a few fonts, Brandon Buerkle now teaches design to undergraduates while working on a graduate degree in typeface design. Their small Oregon-based foundry, Society of Fonts, occasionally produces typefaces, which they hope will make the world just a little better.
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