Geist Pixel: Version 1.000 added

[christopherkindl]

New family submission: Geist Pixel, a modular pixel-style display typeface from Vercel. It joins its siblings already on Google Fonts — Geist and Geist Mono — from the same upstream repo.

Upstream: https://github.com/vercel/geist-font @ 10dc7658 · config sources/config-GeistPixel.yaml

Family

• A single variable axis, Element Shape (ELSH), morphs each glyph's building block between square, circle, grid, triangle, and line. The ELSH axis is already in the GF Axis Registry (element_shape.textproto).
• Built with the gftools dev build that adds virtual-master support (googlefonts/gftools@47ec3706b).
• Designers: Andrés Briganti, Evil Rabbit, Guillermo Rauch
• Category: DISPLAY

QA

• Full GF Latin Core glyphset coverage (0 missing)
• Family name unique on namecheck.fontdata.com
• Copyright aligned to The Geist Project Authors (https://github.com/vercel/geist-font)

Notes

• Opened as a draft — the article/ARTICLE.en_us.html copy is provisional and the banner is a family-overview image; happy to adjust to GF conventions or have this re-run through gftools packager.
• Mirrors the existing Geist / Geist Mono onboarding structure (minus upstream_info.md, which the GF team generates).

[christopherkindl]

@emmamarichal — this is the Geist Pixel new-family onboarding (draft), mirroring the Geist + Geist Mono setup from vercel/geist-font. Hoping you can shepherd it through GF review, or re-run it via gftools packager if that's the preferred path.

Context:

• Upstream: vercel/geist-font @ 10dc7658, config sources/config-GeistPixel.yaml
• ELSH axis is already in the GF Axis Registry; full Latin Core coverage; name unique on namecheck
• Designers / Owners: Andrés Briganti, Evil Rabbit, Guillermo Rauch
• Built with the gftools dev build (googlefonts/gftools@47ec3706b) for virtual-master support

Notes / your call:

1. The banner differs from Sans & Mono. Geist Sans and Geist Mono currently share the identical geist-banner-light.png. For Pixel we've used a new family-overview banner (Pixel + Sans + Mono, 2048×2040), so it won't visually match the other two. Happy to swap to a Pixel-only or matching-style image if GF prefers consistency across the family → But ideally, we can add the new banner to Geist Sans + Geist Mono as well.
2. The article/ARTICLE.en_us.html copy is a provisional draft — please tweak as needed.
3. Minor: repo OFL.txt reads "Copyright 2024…" while the Pixel font embeds "Copyright 2026 The Geist Project Authors (https://github.com/vercel/geist-font)" — flagging in case fontspector's OFL/name consistency check cares about the year.

CLA: I believe Vercel already signed for Geist — let me know if anything's needed there.

[emmamarichal]

Great, thank you very much! I'll do a last review :)
What you can do in the meantime, is to update your image file size: Max resolution allowed: Height: 1024 pixels Width: 2048 pixels

Here you can find all the specs for article if you need:

• https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/promotion.html#images-for-the-about-section
• https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/article.html

[christopherkindl]

Great, thank you very much! I'll do a last review :) What you can do in the meantime, is to update your image file size: Max resolution allowed: Height: 1024 pixels Width: 2048 pixels

Here you can find all the specs for article if you need:

• https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/promotion.html#images-for-the-about-section
• https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/article.html

@emmamarichal I checked some other fonts and noticed most authors don't provide a banner (e.g. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter/about). Am I looking in the right place? If so, we can skip the banner. The font is already showcased in the preview. Let me double-check with the team, I will update accordingly!

[emmamarichal]

@christopherkindl Yes, indeed, while it's recommended, it's not strictly mandatory. In any case, you can ask me if you want to update it later! :)

[christopherkindl]

Heads-up: this PR got auto-closed after a force-push to the geist-pixel branch, and GitHub won't let a force-pushed PR be reopened. I've opened #10591 to continue — same branch and history, with the banner image removed per your note above. Sorry for the noise, @emmamarichal + we will skip the banner image for now!