BIG CIRCLE AUCTIONS
Assets

Typography

Familjen Grotesk carries display, IBM Plex Sans carries every working word. Both are open source under the SIL Open Font License, so they can be installed, embedded, and sent to a vendor at no cost. The wordmark is drawn artwork — set it from the logo files, never from a font.

Familjen Grotesk

SemiBold 600 and Bold 700. Headlines, section titles, card titles, and any large figure. Squared terminals give it a slight engineering flavor that echoes the flywheel behind the mark, while staying clearly separate from the wordmark.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890 & · — “ ” ’

Same terms — download or embed.

Download TTF Specimen License

IBM Plex Sans

Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600. Body copy, interface labels, tables, forms and figures. Built for screens and for numbers, which matters on a platform where bid tables have to be read quickly and correctly.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890 & · — “ ” ’

Same terms — download or embed.

Download TTF Specimen License

The scale

Six sizes cover every surface. Screen sizes are given here, starting from a 17 px body; in print the same relationships hold.

The group is the asset
Display
Familjen Grotesk 700 · 64 / 67 · −0.032em
Open auctions
Headline
Familjen Grotesk 700 · 36 / 38
Warehouse, 44,000 sq ft
Section
Familjen Grotesk 600 · 20 / 25
An auction only opens once enrollment reaches the required threshold, and it closes when the platform calls for Best & Final.
Lede
IBM Plex Sans 400 · 19 / 30
Participants pay a posted fee to enter each round. Buyers and sellers both settle at the hammer price, so the pressure the group creates stays inside the group.
Body
IBM Plex Sans 400 · 17 / 28
ROUND THREE · SIX PARTICIPANTS
Label
IBM Plex Sans 600 · 13 · 0.1em

Embedding

One request covers both families.

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Familjen+Grotesk:wght@600;700&family=IBM+Plex+Sans:wght@400;500;600&display=swap">
--display: 'Familjen Grotesk', system-ui, sans-serif;
--sans:    'IBM Plex Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;