Barbaris

Name: Barbaris
Author: Udr Design

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

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Displayby Udr Design56% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Barbaris

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Barbaris, including combinations with Fonzie, Publica Ignominia and Hibiscus Sans.

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 Barbaris 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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Barbaris Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Barbaris Specimen

Barbaris

Barbaris is a display typeface by Udr Design built for display contexts.

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BARBARIS

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Barbaris— display typeface

BarbarisBy Udr Design

BarbarisTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Barbaris Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Barbaris Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Barbaris 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Barbaris'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Barbaris in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Barbaris in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Barbaris

Udr Design

Display

Open Source

Barbaris font is a display typeface projecting bold grunge presence through rough vintage barbarian construction for barbaric aesthetics. The weathered letterforms project warrior authority suitable for historical entertainment, barbaric themes, and design projects celebrating barbaris typography. Bold grunge rough forms create weathered presence while barbaric influence adds warrior character. Effective for historical gaming, barbarian themes, and warrior communications.

Barbaris comes from the work of Udr Design. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Barbaris features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Barbaris is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available.

Barbaris

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Barbaris

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Barbaris 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: 56). Barbaris handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by Udr Design. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Barbaris

Barbaris represents a Graphic typeface, grounded in 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith features Barbaris in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Barbaris

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Alternatives to Barbaris

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Barbaris based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Adequate Accessibility

Barbaris: Accessibility Considerations

Barbaris 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.

Legibility Analysis: Barbaris

Barbaris 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.

Barbaris's Readability

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.

Barbaris's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Barbaris Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Barbaris: Best Practices

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Barbaris. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Barbaris in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

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
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Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
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This font encodes 36 glyphs. Its character set does not fully cover a standard writing system, which is typical of display, symbol and ornament faces intended for short headline settings.

Legal

Usage Rights for Barbaris

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.

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

Barbaris

Best Ways to Use Barbaris

Best Font Pairings for Barbaris

Test Barbaris Font Pairings Live

In Context

Barbaris Typography

Barbaris

Character Set

Type Scale

Barbaris Used As Body Text

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

Barbaris: Accessibility Considerations

Legibility Analysis: Barbaris

Barbaris's Readability

Barbaris's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Barbaris Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Barbaris: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Barbaris

Best Ways to Use Barbaris

Best Font Pairings for Barbaris

Test Barbaris Font Pairings Live

In Context

Barbaris Typography

Barbaris

Character Set

Type Scale

Barbaris Used As Body Text

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

Barbaris: Accessibility Considerations

Legibility Analysis: Barbaris

Barbaris's Readability

Barbaris's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Barbaris Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Barbaris: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference