geometric sans workhorse with additional inktraps and inkspots
About Zimula
Zimula is a classic contemporary geometric typeface and comes in a friendly and warm vibe. With 9 weights ranging from Thin to Black, the standard styles can be used as a workhorse for everyday design tasks.
But the Zimula family comes in two other styles: InkTrap and InkSpot. The former features generous, angular Inktraps, which ensure crisp text in smaller sizes and become a stylistic element in the heavier weights, perfect for catching titles and posters. The latter, on the other hand, fill out the joints, resulting in an irregular texture for the lighter weights and a soft overall appearance for the heavier weights.
With the available variable font, you can choose between InkTrap and InkSpot seamlessly — this opens up options for optimizing body copy and finding just the right amount of character for large-format designs. A generous character set, extensive OpenType features and an alternative set with filled-in punches come on top.
- ▸Released in 2021
- ▸Extended in 2023
- ▸Geometric Sans
- ▸9 weights in 3 styles
- ▸Alternate filled forms
- ▸1011 Glyphs
Please note that this preview font only includes basic upper- and lowercase letters as well as standard figures. No kerning and OpenType features are included. Please see reference images or the specimen PDF for full functionality.
OpenType-Features
All weights and styles of Zimula come with essential features for editorial and branding usage — speaking of alternates, ligatures, case-sensitive forms and various figure styles.
- ▸5 Stylistic Sets
- ▸Standard Ligatures
- ▸Discretionary Ligatures
- ▸Contextual Alternates
- ▸Case sensitive Forms
- ▸Tabular Figures
- ▸Superior and Inferior Figures
- ▸Dynamic Fractions
- ▸Slashed Zero
Language Support
Thanks to the coverage of the Latin-Extended-A Unicode range the Zimula family supports most modern Latin languages. Actually, containing some additional accented glyphs, you can set text in 302 languages, including Vietnamese. If you still think your language isn't supported, you can look up the full list below or in the specimen.
- Complete list of supported languages
Acheron • Achinese • Acholi • Achuar-Shiwiar • Afar • Afrikaans • Aguaruna • Alekano • Aleut • Amahuaca • Amarakaeri • Amis • Anaang • Andaandi, Dongolawi • Anuta • Ao Naga • Apinayé • Aragonese • Arbëreshë Albanian • Arvanitika Albanian • Asháninka • Ashéninka Perené • Asu (Tanzania) • Balinese • Bari • Basque • Batak Dairi • Batak Karo • Batak Mandailing • Batak Simalungun • Batak Toba • Bemba (Zambia) • Bena (Tanzania) • Bikol • Bini • Bislama • Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo • Bosnian • Breton • Buginese • Candoshi-Shapra • Caquinte • Cashibo-Cacataibo • Cashinahua • Catalan • Cebuano • Central Aymara • Central Kurdish • Central Nahuatl • Chachi • Chamorro • Chavacano • Chiga • Chiltepec Chinantec • Chokwe • Chuukese • Cimbrian • Cofán • Congo Swahili • Cook Islands Māori • Cornish • Corsican • Creek • Crimean Tatar • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dehu • Dimli • Dutch • Eastern Abnaki • Eastern Arrernte • Eastern Oromo • Efik • Embu • English • Ese Ejja • Faroese • Fijian • Filipino • Finnish • French • Friulian • Gagauz • Galician • Ganda • Ga’anda • German • Gheg Albanian • Gilbertese • Gooniyandi • Guadeloupean Creole French • Gusii • Haitian • Hani • Hiligaynon • Ho-Chunk • Hopi • Huastec • Hungarian • Icelandic • Iloko • Inari Sami • Indonesian • Irish • Istro Romanian • Italian • Ixcatlán Mazatec • Jamaican Creole English • Japanese • Javanese • Jola-Fonyi • K‘iche‘ • Kabuverdianu • Kaingang • Kala Lagaw Ya • Kalaallisut • Kalenjin • Kamba (Kenya) • Kaonde • Karelian • Kashubian • Kekchí • Kenzi, Mattokki • Khasi • Kikuyu • Kimbundu • Kinyarwanda • Kirmanjki • Kituba (DRC) • Kongo • Konzo • Kuanyama • Kven Finnish • Kölsch • Ladin • Ladino • Latgalian • Latin • Ligurian • Lithuanian • Lombard • Low German • Lower Sorbian • Luba-Lulua • Lule Sami • Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) • Luxembourgish • Macedo-Romanian • Makhuwa • Makhuwa-Meetto • Makonde • Makwe • Malagasy • Malaysian • Maltese • Mandinka • Mandjak • Mankanya • Manx • Maore Comorian • Maori • Mapudungun • Matsés • Mauritian Creole • Meriam Mir • Meru • Minangkabau • Mirandese • Mohawk • Montenegrin • Munsee • Murrinh-Patha • Mwani • Mískito • Naga Pidgin • Ndonga • Neapolitan • Ngazidja Comorian • Niuean • Nobiin • Nomatsiguenga • North Ndebele • Northern Kurdish • Northern Qiandong Miao • Northern Sami • Northern Uzbek • Norwegian • Nyanja • Nyankole • Occitan • Orma • Oroqen • Palauan • Paluan • Pampanga • Papiamento • Pedi • Picard • Pichis Ashéninka • Piemontese • Pijin • Pintupi-Luritja • Pohnpeian • Polish • Portuguese • Potawatomi • Páez • Quechua • Romanian • Romansh • Rotokas • Rundi • Rwa • Samburu • Samoan • Sango • Sangu (Tanzania) • Saramaccan • Sardinian • Scottish Gaelic • Sena • Seri • Seselwa Creole French • Shambala • Shawnee • Shipibo-Conibo • Shona • Shuar • Sicilian • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Soga • Somali • Soninke • South Ndebele • Southern Aymara • Southern Qiandong Miao • Southern Sami • Southern Sotho • Spanish • Sranan Tongo • Standard Estonian • Standard Latvian • Standard Malay • Sundanese • Swahili • Swati • Swedish • Swiss German • Tagalog • Tahitian • Taita • Tedim Chin • Tetum • Tetun Dili • Tiv • Toba • Tok Pisin • Tokelau • Tonga (Tonga Islands) • Tosk Albanian • Tsonga • Tswana • Tumbuka • Turkish • Turkmen • Tzeltal • Tzotzil • Uab Meto • Umbundu • Ume Sami • Upper Guinea Crioulo • Upper Sorbian • Venetian • Veps • Vietnamese • Võro • Walloon • Walser • Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa • Waorani • Waray (Philippines) • Warlpiri • Wayuu • Welsh • West Central Oromo • Western Abnaki • Western Frisian • Wik-Mungkan • Wiradjuri • Wolof • Xavánte • Xhosa • Yanesha‘ • Yao • Yapese • Yindjibarndi • Yucateco • Zulu • Záparo
Glyph Set
Zimula comes with 1011 glyphs, covering the Latin Extended-A Unicode Range, alternates for »a« and »G«, ligatures and some decorative filled forms.
To get an overview of the full glyph set, all styles, OpenType-Features and text samples you can download the specimen below.
Specimen & Trials
To get a complete overview of all features, the glyph set and range of cuts you can download the specimen. It is designed to work not only for information on screen, but to be printed out to get an impression of appearence in different sizes on paper.
You can also go straight to testing the typefaces in your favorite layout program: Our test fonts package can be downloaded for free and contains all of our previously published typefaces!