Gilland

Name: Gilland
Author: Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo

Gilland brings classic elegance to your typography with refined serifs that guide the eye through extended reading.

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Serifby Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo84% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Gilland Editorial Specimen

Gilland in Editorial Context

Gilland is a serif typeface by Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo

Typeface Designer • Serif

Gilland demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Gilland supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo, Gilland balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Gilland Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Gilland Specimen

Gilland

Gilland is a serif typeface by Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo built for display contexts.

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Gilland— serif typeface

GillandBy Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Gilland Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Gilland

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Gilland, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Gilland demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Gilland for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Gilland small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Gilland delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Gilland italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Gilland bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Gilland typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Gilland typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Gilland'; }

Quick Start

Gilland Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Gilland:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Gilland:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Gilland';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Gilland:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Gilland CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Gilland', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Gilland', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'gilland': ['Gilland', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-gilland">Your text here</p>

About

Understanding Gilland

Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo

Serif

Open Source

Gilland serif typeface delivers bold, elegant vintage antiqua forms through refined construction suited to heritage display applications. Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo's design creates sophisticated character for hospitality branding, cultural publications, and period-inspired projects. The bold weight projects authority while vintage proportions add historical resonance. Gilland's elegant aesthetic appeals to boutique hotels, specialty retail, and heritage brands. Display sizes showcase the typeface's vintage character. Pair with a lighter serif for body text.

Gilland was designed by Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Gilland features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for academic papers and legal documents.

Gilland is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Gilland

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Gilland's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Gilland within the Classicals (Humanist, Garalde, Transitional) and Moderns (Didone) tradition, characterized by Bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and Modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. Serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Key technical strength: extensive weight and optical-size ranges in superfamilies.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 84). Gilland performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Gilland

Gilland falls within the Classicals typeface, drawn from the tradition where serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Its distinctive bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it well-suited for academic papers and legal documents. TypeSmith catalogs Gilland in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Gilland

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Gilland based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Using Gilland Accessibly

Gilland achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. High-contrast Didones can cause halation for readers with astigmatism. Prefer Garalde or Transitional cuts at text sizes for inclusive readability.

Legibility Analysis: Gilland

Gilland draws legibility from its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Gilland?

Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print. On screen, hinting quality determines legibility below 14 px. Set body text at 16 px or larger on screen, with line heights between 1.4 and 1.6 for sustained reading comfort.

Visual Comfort with Gilland

Gilland provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Gilland Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Gilland. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Gilland at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Design Tips for Gilland

Pair with geometric or grotesque sans-serifs for contrast. Avoid pairing two serifs from the same Vox sub-class to prevent visual redundancy. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Gilland. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Gilland in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 354 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Gilland is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Gilland ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'gilland': ['Gilland', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-gilland">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Gilland

Best Font Pairings for Gilland

Test Gilland Font Pairings Live

In Context

Gilland Typography

Gilland

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Gilland

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Gilland Accessibly

Legibility Analysis: Gilland

How Readable is Gilland?

Visual Comfort with Gilland

Gilland Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Gilland

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Gilland

Best Ways to Use Gilland

Best Font Pairings for Gilland

Test Gilland Font Pairings Live

In Context

Gilland Typography

Gilland

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Gilland

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Gilland Accessibly

Legibility Analysis: Gilland

How Readable is Gilland?

Visual Comfort with Gilland

Gilland Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Gilland

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference