---
title: Geist Sans
description: Alternate sans serif with nine weights, real italics, and variable weight control.
sidebar:
  icon: type
  order: 3
---

Geist Sans is an alternate sans serif. [Makira](/fonts/makira) remains the default sans; load Geist Sans separately when its voice fits the project. For serif typography, use [Geist Serif](/fonts/geist-serif). Its CSS family names remain `"Geist"` and `"Geist Variable"`.

## Preview

Try a continuous weight from 100 to 900, and switch between normal and italic.

<FontPlayground family="Geist" />

## Install

```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.shaughv.com/fonts/geist/geist.css" />
```

## Usage

```css
.interface {
  font-family: "Geist", system-ui, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-synthesis: none;
}
.interface em { font-style: italic; }
.continuous-weight {
  font-family: "Geist Variable", system-ui, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 450;
}
```

## Details

| Build | Formats | Weights | CSS family | Styles |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Static | WOFF2, TTF, OTF | 100–900 in steps of 100 | `"Geist"` | Normal and italic |
| Variable | WOFF2, TTF | Continuous 100–900 | `"Geist Variable"` | Normal and italic |

All 58 supplied version 1.900 files are hosted without changing their bytes: 18 static faces in each of three formats, plus four variable files. The stylesheet uses WOFF2. The `webfonts` directory is normalized to `woff2`; variable files use `Geist-Variable` and `Geist-Italic-Variable` filenames.

Use the static family for named weights, or the separate variable family for intermediate values. Both provide real italics. This alternate stays outside the combined standard stylesheet.

## Reference

[Family metadata](https://cdn.shaughv.com/fonts/geist/font-info.json) records every supplied filename, published path, checksum, version, weight, style, axis, and inspected OpenType tags. Use `fonts.geist` in the [live catalog](https://cdn.shaughv.com/tree.json) for installation snippets and current files.

Geist is released by [Vercel's Geist project](https://github.com/vercel/geist-font) under SIL Open Font License 1.1. Keep the [OFL](https://cdn.shaughv.com/fonts/geist/OFL.txt) and [copyright notice](https://cdn.shaughv.com/fonts/geist/LICENSE.txt) with redistributed files. [Geist Mono](/fonts/geist-mono) is the related default mono.