Engine speed 800 r/minGear 1
Width 600
Weight 550
Gantrix
About
Gantrix is a square sans serif system that sits between futuristic form and functional design. Its joints, usually key to letter recognition, have been removed and replaced with hybrid forms that add personality, especially in the lighter weights. In characters with a middle joint, such as B, 3 and 8, this detail pushes the limits of recognition. Seven widths and seven weights let designers fine-tune tone and expression while keeping a consistent appearance, from light, narrow and elegant styles to heavy, wide and boxy ones. Closer to contemporary sci-fi than to retro futurism, it suits sport, automotive graphics, video games, fashion, beauty or UI design.
- Styles
- 50, including a variable font
- Design
- Eduardo Manso
- Publisher
- Emtype Foundry
Styles
Joints
Where a stroke meets a stem, the joint becomes a sharp corner. The rest of the outline stays rounded.
B38
B, 3 and 8 carry their joint at the vertical middle, and that is where the hybrid forms are hardest to read. For these characters Gantrix adds alternates with classic joints in stylistic set 1, to improve legibility where it matters. The default forms were kept on purpose: they have plenty of personality and character, and they are what makes Gantrix stand out.
1000
1000
Instruments
Sport, automotive, space, watches, music and fashion. The type does the reading. Seven widths on one axis make Gantrix ideal for adapting to the space available: compressed for dense dashboards, tables and narrow columns, expanded for wide headlines and screens that need presence, with the same voice in every width.
Calibre T38Frequency 28,800 vph
Time 0 h 00
Km 35Altitude 2,642 mClimbing 3,200 m
2.4 kHz
Q 4.0
Peak+12 dB
3B-808
| cm | XS | S | M | L | XL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest | 104 | 110 | 116 | 122 | 128 |
| Length | 70 | 72 | 74 | 76 | 78 |
| Sleeve | 84 | 86 | 88 | 90 | 92 |
Seven widths, seven weights
Racecraft 1:23.808
Text
Pit Wall Telemetry Feed
Live Telemetry from Sector Two
Lights Out and Away We Go
Tyre Temperatures, Brake Wear and Fuel Mode
Orbit Insertion
Sector Times, Gaps and Tyre Ages on One Screen
Box This Lap
Light 16/23
Telemetry is the quiet half of every race. Hundreds of sensors measure temperatures, pressures, loads and speeds many times a second, and send the readings to the pit wall while the car is still on track. Engineers turn those numbers into decisions: a change of brake balance, a different fuel mode, a pit stop one lap earlier than planned. Between sessions the same data is replayed against the driver’s own laps, corner by corner, until a gap of one tenth has a name and a place on the circuit. By the evening the setup sheet has changed, and the next morning the car goes out to prove it.
Regular 16/23
Space missions rely on the same idea at a much longer range. A probe far from Earth reports its position, its power and the health of every instrument, and a team on the ground reads the stream line by line. A single value out of range can change the plan for weeks. Signals take minutes or hours to arrive, so every reading is already history when it reaches the screen, and every command is written for a moment that has not happened yet. The work is patient and exact, and it depends on numbers that nobody can afford to misread.
Medium 16/23
Good data needs good type. Figures must be clear at a glance, labels must hold up at small sizes, and headlines must stand out on a screen full of numbers. Tabular figures keep columns steady while the values change, and narrow widths let long names fit into tight cells without dropping the size. The same family can then set the big number on the dashboard and the small print beneath it, so the whole panel speaks with one voice from the first reading to the last. Even the smallest label on the dial is set to be read in a hurry, at speed and under pressure.
Typetester
1000
1000
120 px
Telemetry from the edge of the track
Character set
U+0042B