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Bellota

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

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Displayby Pablo Impallari76% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Bellota

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Best Font Pairings for Bellota

TypeSmith curates 8 expert font pairings for Bellota, including combinations with Beastly, Alegreya and ABeeZee.

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

Explore 8 Pairings for Bellota
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Test Bellota Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Bellota 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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In Context

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Bellota Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Bellota Specimen

Bellota

Bellota is a display typeface by Pablo Impallari built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Bellota
Bellota
BELLOTA
BELLOTATYPE
B

Tagline Pairings

Bellota— display typeface
BellotaBy Pablo Impallari
BellotaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Bellota Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Bellota

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Bellota primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Bellota section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Bellota subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Bellota content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Bellota minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Bellota smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Bellota Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Bellota 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.

Bellota small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxBellota delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxBellota italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxBellota bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxBellota typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxBellota typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Bellota'; }

Quick Start

Bellota Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Bellota';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bellota');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Bellota: A Closer Look

Pablo Impallari
Display
Open Source

Bellota offers creative expression and unique character, making it well-suited for logos. Its bold presence and unique personality contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for headlines and logos, Bellota adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Bellota supports a variety of languages, primarily those using the Latin alphabet, including Western....

Bellota was designed by Pablo Impallari. The typeface's Tight spacing for large sizes and Exaggerated contrast or decorative features reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary display typography.

As a Graphic display in the Vox-ATypI Graphic family, Bellota display typography tradition. Its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it a strong fit for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Bellota is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 8 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Bellota

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Bellota

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

1

Classification

Graphic display classification. Bellota exhibits Tight spacing for large sizes, Exaggerated contrast or decorative features, Refined details at headline scale. Designed by Pablo Impallari. A display typeface available through TypeSmith.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 76). Bellota delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Pablo Impallari. Bellota display typography tradition, delivered as a single focused weight. The designer's portfolio includes encode sans and encode sans expanded.

Overview

About Bellota

Bellota falls within the Graphic display in the Vox-ATypI Graphic family, designed during the Contemporary display typography era. Built with Tight spacing for large sizes and Exaggerated contrast or decorative features, Bellota serves as a standard typeface for event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith catalogs Bellota in a single weight variant and 8 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
8 curated pairings for Bellota
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Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Bellota: Accessibility Considerations

Bellota achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Bellota's Legibility

Bellota 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.

Bellota Reading Performance

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.

Bellota for Long-Form Content

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

Bellota Accessibility Recommendations

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

Bellota Usage Guidelines

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

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Available Weights & Styles

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
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Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Language 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

Bellota supports a variety of languages, primarily those using the Latin alphabet, including Western European, Central European, and South Eastern European languages. This allows for a wide range of applications across different linguistic contexts.

Legal

Usage Rights for Bellota

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.

Bellota 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 Bellota ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.