1 / 3Loading font…
About Terminal Grotesque Font
Terminal Grotesque, designed by Raphaël Bastide, is a geometric display typeface built on principles of clarity and straightforward visual communication. With 214 glyphs supporting 209+ Latin-based languages, the font addresses international design work while maintaining a confident, no-compromise personality throughout. The font's pure geometric structure makes it particularly well suited for poster headlines, music album covers, video game interface labels, and app header text, where immediate legibility combines with strong graphic presence to capture and direct viewer attention.
The Regular weight offers clean, unadorned letterforms that give the typeface's structural logic room to speak with directness and visual force. This pure minimalist approach excels in contexts demanding instant visual clarity, from Etsy storefront banners and transit signage to gallery wall labels, exhibition branding, and software dashboards. The font sustains its distinctive geometric character across both large display sizes and smaller functional applications, never compromising the precision and character that define its physical form and practical design purpose.
Licensed under the Open Font License, Terminal Grotesque is available completely free for both personal and commercial use. The typeface works best in design projects where modern, unsentimental visual language aligns with audience expectations and editorial content, providing consistent, dependable performance across international applications and markets.
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Eye-catching, Bold, Display
- Use Case
- Headlines, Logos
- Ideal For
- posters, branding, and social media graphics
- Pairs With
- a readable sans or serif for body
Terminal Grotesque Specifications
| Font Family | Terminal Grotesque |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Terminal Grotesque Regular |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Weight | 400 (Regular) |
| Glyph Count | 214 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | Terminal-Grotesque |
| Designer | Raphaël Bastide |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 49.7 KB |
OpenType Features
Terminal Grotesque ships with 1 OpenType feature you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).
- Standard ligatures
Languages Supported
Terminal Grotesque supports 209 languages.
How to Install Terminal Grotesque Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Terminal Grotesque font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Terminal Grotesque is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
More by Raphaël Bastide
View all →Browse fonts by theme
Curated collections →Saw a font in a picture? Identify any font from an image with our free Font Finder.
More Display Fonts
Browse all →What pairs well with Terminal Grotesque Font?
Terminal Grotesque Font is a display font that shines as a display or heading face. Pair it with a clean sans-serif or serif font for body text — the contrast creates a clear hierarchy while the two styles stay balanced and easy to read.
Premium Display Fonts
★ PremiumWant something with more weights, glyphs, and commercial polish? These premium display fonts are worth a look.
Terminal Grotesque Font
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated November 2026
















