Sans-serif typeface

from Fontwerk
designed by Christine Gertsch

Variable Font

2 axes: Weight, Width

56 Styles

8 Weights: XLight to Black
7 Widths: XCondensed to XWide

Best for

  • Headings (display text)
  • Long reading text (body text)
  • User Interfaces (functional text)

License starting

around $50 (one style)
around $700 (bundle)

Specialty

A vast, attention grabbing American Grotesque type family that comes in eight weights and seven widths.

My Push Font Review

Push is pushing it to the limit! This sans-serif type family stood out to me because of its vast design space, providing you with plenty of options to express yourself. It is aimed towards large text or logotypes. And since it’s a variable font, you can really fine-tune how it works. And this is what we will do in a little example below.

Extra Light & Extra Condensed or wide Push covers a vast range of 7 weights and 8 widths Ideal for headings, logos ads, or expressive editorial design.
Push is very versatile, in a sense strict, but also playful

But first I want to tell you about its appearance. Push is a contemporary American Grotesque typeface. These typefaces, like Franklin Gothic, feel very strict and sober. Push however, manages to still convey something quirky and playful. Also because of its stylistic alternates, of which I love the light accents and punctuations.

Great options: alternative g, a and accents.
Make Push more expressive by activating stylistic alternates

But its biggest advantages are the 56 styles, covering seven widths and eight weights. Below I only show you three widths, the extremes and the regular one. But it’s not so much about the styles, it’s what you can make with them. So let’s make use of this flexibility for a podcast title design.

Goging from Extra Condensed Extra Light to Extra Wide Black

In an upcoming article and video, I will show you how to use the variable font to adjust the logotype of a podcast cover. See for yourself in this little preview what difference the right typeface can make. Inside the podcast app, which one of these titles stand out more?

The original design of the podcast cover
The redesign using Push for the new logotype

Font Pairings with Push

Push is a linear rational sans-serif typeface, made for larger text or branding projects. Pair it with one of my suggestions for body text or UI text.

Push
Push
  • Headings
  • Copy

Learn more about pairing typefaces using the Font Matrix.


Is this typeface pushing it to the limit? Tell me in the comments what you think of Push and if you would use it in an upcoming project!

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