Ankara Serif

Name: Ankara Serif
Author: Tuna Caglar Gumus

Ankara Serif offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Slab Serifby Tuna Caglar Gumus70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Ankara Serif

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Ankara Serif, including combinations with Guidy, Ntf Fruitridge and League Gothic.

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 Ankara Serif with any font combination in real-time, optimized for slab serif characteristics.

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

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Ankara Serif Editorial Specimen

Ankara Serif in Editorial Context

Ankara Serif is a slab serif typeface by Tuna Caglar Gumus suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Tuna Caglar Gumus

Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

Ankara Serif demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a slab serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Ankara Serif supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Tuna Caglar Gumus, Ankara Serif balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Ankara Serif Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Ankara Serif Specimen

Ankara Serif

Ankara Serif is a slab serif typeface by Tuna Caglar Gumus built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSlab Serif Typeface

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Ankara Serif

ANKARA SERIF

ANKARA SERIFTYPE

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Ankara Serif— slab serif typeface

Ankara SerifBy Tuna Caglar Gumus

Ankara SerifTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Ankara Serif Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Ankara Serif Body Typography

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

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

When setting Ankara Serif 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Ankara Serif'; }

Quick Start

Using Ankara Serif in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Ankara Serif CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Ankara Serif's Details

Tuna Caglar Gumus

Slab Serif

Open Source

Ankara Serif font is a bold vintage slab-serif by Tuna Caglar Gumus designed for commanding nostalgic display applications with substantial presence. This powerful typeface delivers bold weight suited for vintage-inspired branding, retro advertising recreations, and editorial design requiring strong period character. Ankara Serif excels in heritage brand revitalization, vintage poster design, and publication headlines where bold nostalgic forms create memorable impact. The vintage details add authentic period character while bold weight ensures visibility. Designers seeking bold vintage slab-serifs will find Ankara Serif delivers appropriate nostalgic strength. Works well alongside thin sans-serifs for weight contrast.

Ankara Serif was created by Tuna Caglar Gumus. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Slab Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic classification, Ankara Serif features unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for data-dense interfaces like dashboards and tables.

Ankara Serif is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 4 curated font pairings available.

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Best Ways to Use Ankara Serif

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Ankara Serif Typography

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Character Set

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Ankara Serif Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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