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Vercel is adding Geist Serif, a high-contrast display serif, to its Geist typeface family for headlines, posters and other large sizes.
- The company says Geist Sans runs its product, but for headlines it wanted a second voice that belongs to the same system rather than a stranger picked from a drop-down menu.
- Geist Serif began as sketches by Evil Rabbit that Andrés Briganti expanded, and Mark Davis took over the drawings; the first release is a display face while work on the full family continues.
- To take advantage of modern screens, Vercel thinned every downstroke by 50% and tightened the sidebearings, since print has struggled to hold fine hairlines and sharp serifs.
- The font ships in the same npm package as the rest of the family, with a variable axis called Element Shape that swaps every dot for Regular, Square, Triangle or Heart variants, each also available as a static file.
- It has 894 glyphs, up from 227 in July, covers 352 Latin-script languages, and was kerned across more than 52,000 pairs; Regular is the first style released, with weights from Thin to Black in progress.
