23XX

Name: 23XX
Author: Tevin Bloise

23XX commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Tevin Bloise55% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for 23XX

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for 23XX, including combinations with Lemour Serif, Inter and Cantique.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview 23XX with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

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

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23XX Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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23XX Specimen

23XX

23XX is a display typeface by Tevin Bloise built for display contexts.

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23XX— display typeface

23XXBy Tevin Bloise

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

23XX Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in 23XX

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for 23XX, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

23XX demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting 23XX 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.

23XX 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	23XX delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	23XX italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	23XX bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	23XX typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	23XX typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: '23Xx'; }

Quick Start

23XX Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=23Xx:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=23Xx:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: '23Xx';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=23Xx:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: '23Xx', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: '23Xx', 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        '23xx': ['23Xx', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-23xx">Your text here</p>

About

23XX's Details

Tevin Bloise

Display

Open Source

23Xx font is a display typeface projecting bold futuristic presence through geometric grotesque logo-ready construction for 23rd century aesthetics. The commanding letterforms project distant future authority suitable for sci-fi entertainment, technology branding, and design projects imagining far-future typography. Futuristic geometric forms create speculative presence while bold weight ensures headline dominance. Effective for sci-fi gaming, future tech, and speculative entertainment.

23XX was designed by Tevin Bloise. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, 23XX features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

23XX 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.

23XX

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of 23XX

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand 23XX's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, 23XX within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 55). 23XX offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by Tevin Bloise. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About 23XX

23XX falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith catalogs 23XX in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for 23XX

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Typefaces Like 23XX

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to 23XX 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

Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Features of 23XX

23XX falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

23XX's Legibility

23XX draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: 23XX

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

23XX for Long-Form Content

23XX provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

23XX Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting 23XX. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test 23XX at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

23XX Usage Guidelines

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for 23XX. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve 23XX in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

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700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

International Character Support

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 204 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

23XX Licensing

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.

23XX 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 23XX 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 '23xx': ['23Xx', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-23xx">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use 23XX

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Character Set

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Reading Text in 23XX

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

Accessibility Features of 23XX

23XX's Legibility

Readability Profile: 23XX

23XX for Long-Form Content

23XX Accessibility Recommendations

23XX Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

23XX

Best Ways to Use 23XX

Best Font Pairings for 23XX

Test 23XX Font Pairings Live

In Context

23XX Typography

23XX

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in 23XX

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

Accessibility Features of 23XX

23XX's Legibility

Readability Profile: 23XX

23XX for Long-Form Content

23XX Accessibility Recommendations

23XX Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference