GD Grio

4 Weights, 16 styles
Style€ 75Family€ 474
Gärde Design FoundryGD Grio

GD Grio

GD Grio is built on a simple yet generous idea, a typeface designed to fill space. It can condense to fit within tight compositions or expand to occupy room with confidence, maintaining rhythm and clarity across its full range.

Inspired by Venus Grotesk (1907, Bauer Type Foundry), it celebrates the raw, human charm of a transitional era in typography – when 19th-century eccentricity met 20th-century clarity. Grio embraces imperfection: uneven proportions, shifting rhythm, and curious terminals lend a living texture to every word.

Reimagined as a variable font, it translates these historic quirks into a fluid digital form, moving seamlessly between refined text and expressive display.

Year
2025
Designer(s)
Marcus Gärde · Christoffer Granström · Anders Wikström
Style
Grotesk
Weights
Regular · Medium · Semibold · Bold · Narrow Regular · Narrow Medium · Narrow Semibold · Narrow Bold · Extra Narrow Regular · Extra Narrow Medium · Extra Narrow Semibold · Extra Narrow Bold · Condensed Regular · Condensed Medium · Condensed Semibold · Condensed Bold
Features
Open Type Alternates · Proportional Numbers · Tabular Numbers
Languages
200+
UPM
2816
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GD Grio – Imperfectly Perfect

GD Grio is built on a simple yet generous idea, a typeface designed to fill space. It can condense to fit within tight compositions or expand to occupy room with confidence, maintaining rhythm and clarity across its full range.

Inspired by Venus Grotesk (1907, Bauer Type Foundry), it celebrates the raw, human charm of a transitional era in typography – when 19th-century eccentricity met 20th-century clarity. Grio embraces imperfection: uneven proportions, shifting rhythm, and curious terminals lend a living texture to every word.

Reimagined as a variable font, it translates these historic quirks into a fluid digital form, moving seamlessly between refined text and expressive display.

Year
2025
Designer(s)
Marcus Gärde
Christoffer Granström
Anders Wikström
Style
Grotesk
Weights
Regular
Medium
Semibold
Bold
Narrow Regular
Narrow Medium
Narrow Semibold
Narrow Bold
Extra Narrow Regular
Extra Narrow Medium
Extra Narrow Semibold
Extra Narrow Bold
Condensed Regular
Condensed Medium
Condensed Semibold
Condensed Bold
Features
Open Type Alternates
Proportional Numbers
Tabular Numbers
Languages
200+
UPM
2816
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GD Grio
Regular
Style€ 75Family€ 474
GD Grio Narrow
Regular
Style€ 75Family€ 474
GD Grio Extra Narrow
Regular
Style€ 75Family€ 474
GD Grio Condensed
Regular
Style€ 75Family€ 474
GD Grio
Regular
Style€ 75Family€ 474
GD Grio
Variable font
Style€ 75Family€ 474
GD Grio
Weight
Light
wght
400
Range
400–700
Bold 24 px
Semibold 24 px
Medium 24 px
Regular 24 px
Bold 16 px
Semibold 16 px
Medium 16 px
Regular 16 px
Bold 13 px
Semibold 13 px
Medium 13 px
Regular 13 px
GD Grio
Regular
U+0041
Ascender1870
Cap height1408
x-Height976
Baseline0
Descender-360
A
Unicode name
Latin Capital Letter A
Unicode decimal
65
Unicode hex
0041
Block
Basic Latin
Basic Latin
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-B
IPA & Spacing Modifiers
Latin Extended Additional
General Punctuation
Currency Symbols
Letterlike Symbols
Arrows
Mathematical Operators
GD Grio
Regular
Style€ 75.00Family€ 474.00
Language support
+200 languages
Latin script

Acheron, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Alekano, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anaang, Dongolawi (Andaandi), Anuta, Aragonese, Arbëreshë Albanian, Asháninka, Ashéninka (Perené, Pichis), Balinese, Banjar, Bari, Basque, Batak (Dairi, Karo, Mandailing, Simalungun, Toba), Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Bikol, Bislama, Oromo (Borana, Arsi, Guji, Eastern, West Central), Breton, Buginese, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Cebuano, Aymara (Central, Southern), Chachi, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chiltepec Chinantec, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Dehu, Dutch, Arrernte (Eastern), English, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Garifuna, German, Albanian (Gheg, Tosk), Gilbertese, Gooniyandi, Gourmanchéma, Guadeloupean Creole French, Gusii, Haitian Creole, Hani, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Huastec, Hungarian, Iloko, Indonesian, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican Creole English, Javanese, Jola-Fonyi, K’iche’, Kabuverdianu (Cape Verdean Creole), Kalaallisut (Greenlandic), Kalenjin, Kaonde, Karelian, Kashubian, Q’eqchi’ (Kekchí), Kenzi-Mattokki, Khasi, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kituba (DRC), Kongo, Konzo, Kven Finnish, Ladin, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Latgalian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Luba-Lulua, Luo (Kenya & Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Aromanian (Macedo-Romanian), Makonde, Malagasy, Malay (Standard, Malaysian), Maltese, Mandinka, Mankanya, Manx, Comorian (Maore, Ngazidja), Māori, Mapudungun, Marshallese, Matsés, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Meru, Mezquital Otomi, Minangkabau, Mohawk, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Mwani, Miskito, Naga Pidgin, Ndonga, Neapolitan, Niuean, Nobiin, Nomatsiguenga, Ndebele (North, South), Uzbek (Northern), Norwegian, Nyanja (Chichewa), Nyankole, Occitan, Ojitlán Chinantec, Orma, Oroqen, Palauan, Pampanga, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Pedi (Northern Sotho), Picard, Piedmontese, Pijin, Pintupi-Luritja, Pipil, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Purepecha, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Rundi (Kirundi), Samoan, Sango, Sangu (Tanzania), Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Secoya, Sena, Seri, Seselwa Creole French (Seychellois), Shawnee, Shipibo-Conibo, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Soninke, Miao (Northern & Southern Qiandong), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan Tongo, Estonian, Latvian, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tedim Chin, Tetum (Dili), Tok Pisin, Tokelau, Tongan (Islands, Zambia), Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Uab Meto, Crioulo (Upper Guinea), Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Abnaki (Western), Frisian (Western), Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yanesha’, Yao, Yucatec Maya, Zapotec, Zulu, Záparo.

GD Grio
Regular