Typeface Design for Greta Symbol
Ten weights applied to a symbol font
Greta Symbol is an icon font family designed by Peter Biľak and released by Typotheque in 2012. Based on research into symbols commonly used in newspapers, magazines, and online publications, the family covers over 1,200 symbols per style, including arrows, pictograms, alphanumeric symbols, weather symbols, chess figurines, geometric shapes, and zodiac signs. Most glyphs span ten weights, applying typeface-family conventions to the symbol genre.
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Insights
- Applying a ten-weight scale to a symbol font gives designers control over typographic color across a wide range of situations.
- OpenType contextual substitutions encode bracket and parenthesis syntax—e.g., (A) for a circled letter, [[A]] for a filled square—for glyph access.
- Plain-text word triggers such as 'plane', 'laptop', or 'cocktail' map directly to pictograms via automatic substitution.
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