# geist-font — LaTeX support for the Geist, Geist Mono and Geist Serif typefaces The `geist-font` CTAN distribution provides the `geist`, `geistmono` and `geistserif` LaTeX packages for [Geist](https://github.com/vercel/geist-font), the sans-serif, monospaced and serif typeface family designed by Vercel. Geist and Geist Mono are covered in all nine weights (Thin through Black) with matching italics; Geist Serif, a display serif, in its four variants. The packages work with **pdfLaTeX**, **XeLaTeX** and **LuaLaTeX**. Under XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX the fonts are used directly through `fontspec`. Under pdfLaTeX the packages use metrics generated with `autoinst`: Geist and Geist Mono come as Type1 fonts, because pdfTeX cannot subset CFF-flavoured OpenType, while Geist Serif's TrueType fonts are embedded as they are. ## Usage ```latex \usepackage{geist} % Geist as the sans-serif family \usepackage{geistmono} % Geist Mono as the typewriter family \usepackage{geistserif} % Geist Serif as the roman family ``` To set Geist as the document's main font: ```latex \usepackage{geist} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} ``` Geist ships nine weights, more than NFSS's traditional series axis exposes. The usual `\textbf` and `\textit` work as expected, and the additional weights are reachable through `\fontseries`; see the package documentation for the full weight table. Geist Serif comes in four variants that differ only in the shape of their dots: `regular`, `square`, `triangle` and `heart`. Pick one with `\usepackage[variant=heart]{geistserif}`, or switch locally with `\geistserifvariant{heart}`. Each variant has a single regular weight and no italic, so `\textbf` and `\textit` fall back to the upright regular face. ## Fonts included | Family | Font version | Faces | | ----------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------- | | Geist | 1.900 | 9 weights + italics (18 faces) | | Geist Mono | 1.900 | 9 weights + italics (18 faces) | | Geist Serif | 1.003 | 4 variants, regular weight only (4) | Taken from the upstream `vercel/geist-font` release **v1.9.2**. The version of this distribution follows the upstream release it packages. A change to the LaTeX support alone, on the same fonts, adds a fourth component, as in 1.9.2.1. Geist Pixel, a set of five decorative display faces in the same upstream release, is not packaged. It has no weight or shape axis to map onto NFSS and no obvious use in a document body. Open an issue if you want it. ## License - The fonts, and everything derived from them (the Type1 fonts, metrics and encodings generated during packaging), are licensed under the **SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1** — see `OFL.txt`. Geist declares no Reserved Font Name. - The LaTeX support files (`.sty`, `.fd`) and the documentation are licensed under the **LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c** or later. ## Building from source Support files are generated with `autoinst` from the CTAN `fontools` package, which in turn drives `otftotfm` from the LCDF TypeTools. Neither is needed to *use* the package, only to rebuild it. ``` ./build.sh # regenerate everything into build/ and dist/ ./verify.sh # install the flat dist/geist-font tree into a throwaway texmf # tree and compile with pdflatex, xelatex and lualatex ``` The CTAN upload is `dist/geist-font.zip`. It contains only the flat `geist-font/` package tree, whose top-level directory matches the CTAN package ID as required. TeX Live constructs its installation layout from that tree. `build.sh` downloads `autoinst` from the CTAN `fontools` package and needs `otftotfm` (LCDF TypeTools) and either `tectonic` or `xelatex` to build the documentation. `verify.sh` needs a full TeX Live. The `texlive/texlive` container has everything both need, so nothing has to be installed locally: ``` docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/pkg" -w /pkg -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -e HOME=/tmp \ texlive/texlive:latest ./build.sh # likewise for ./verify.sh ``` Running as your own user keeps `build/` and `dist/` owned by you; `HOME=/tmp` gives `updmap-user` and the TeX caches somewhere writable. The package is generated in OT1 and T1 only. `autoinst` turns its encoding list into a `\RequirePackage{fontenc}` call whose last entry becomes the document's current encoding, and with LY1 in that list every family lacking an LY1 shape — Computer Modern, so anything still using `\rmfamily` — is silently substituted with Times. T1 covers the same ground without that side effect.