Bardo

Name: Bardo
Author: Ilya Zakharov

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

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Displayby Ilya Zakharov56% Accessible

Characters512

Glyphs614

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Bardo

Best Font Pairings for Bardo

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Bardo, including combinations with Karasuma Gothic, Novella and Cal Sans.

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

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Test Bardo Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Bardo 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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Bardo Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Bardo Specimen

Bardo

Bardo is a display typeface by Ilya Zakharov built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

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Wordmark Explorations

Bardo

BARDO

BARDOTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Bardo— display typeface

BardoBy Ilya Zakharov

BardoTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Bardo Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Bardo Body Typography

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

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

When setting Bardo 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Bardo in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Bardo';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bardo: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: 'Bardo', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Bardo's Design

Ilya Zakharov

Display

Open Source

Bardo font is a display typeface featuring bold rounded construction with extended Cyrillic support for friendly international headline applications. The approachable letterforms project contemporary warmth suitable for lifestyle branding, international communications, and cross-cultural design projects requiring accessible typographic character. Rounded forms create friendly personality while Cyrillic support enables Eastern European market reach. Effective for hospitality, food brands, and family entertainment.

Bardo comes from the work of Ilya Zakharov. 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, Bardo 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.

Bardo is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Bardo

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Bardo

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

Classification

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

Design Heritage

Designed by Ilya Zakharov. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Bardo

Bardo represents a Graphic typeface, anchored 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 catalogs Bardo in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Bardo

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Related Fonts: Bardo

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Bardo 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

Bardo: Accessibility Considerations

Bardo 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.

Bardo Legibility Characteristics

Bardo 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: Bardo

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.

Bardo for Long-Form Content

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

Bardo Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Bardo Effectively

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 Bardo. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Bardo in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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

Legal

License Type

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.

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

Bardo

Best Ways to Use Bardo

Best Font Pairings for Bardo

Test Bardo Font Pairings Live

In Context

Bardo Typography

Bardo

Character Set

Type Scale

Bardo Body Typography

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

Bardo: Accessibility Considerations

Bardo Legibility Characteristics

Readability Profile: Bardo

Bardo for Long-Form Content

Bardo Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Bardo Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Bardo

Best Ways to Use Bardo

Best Font Pairings for Bardo

Test Bardo Font Pairings Live

In Context

Bardo Typography

Bardo

Character Set

Type Scale

Bardo Body Typography

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

Bardo: Accessibility Considerations

Bardo Legibility Characteristics

Readability Profile: Bardo

Bardo for Long-Form Content

Bardo Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Bardo Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference