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Blackentina

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

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Displayby Sergiy Tkachenko77% Accessible
Characters712
Glyphs854
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Blackentina

01

Best Font Pairings for Blackentina

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Blackentina, including combinations with Aveschon, Equilibrist and Mono 2.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Blackentina
02

Test Blackentina Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Blackentina 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

Blackentina Specimen Gallery

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Blackentina Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Blackentina Specimen

Blackentina

Blackentina is a display typeface by Sergiy Tkachenko built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Blackentina
Blackentina
BLACKENTINA
BLACKENTINATYPE
B

Tagline Pairings

Blackentina— display typeface
BlackentinaBy Sergiy Tkachenko
BlackentinaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Blackentina Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Blackentina

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

Blackentina Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Blackentina 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Blackentina to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Blackentina CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Blackentina

Sergiy Tkachenko
Display
Open Source

Blackentina Typeface font is a display face featuring bold block construction with heavy italic variations and extended Cyrillic support. The commanding letterforms project Argentine-inspired intensity suitable for Latin American branding, international sports marketing, and cross-cultural design projects. Heavy italic forms create dynamic movement while Cyrillic support enables international reach. Effective for football culture, tango events, and South American communications.

Blackentina comes from the work of Sergiy Tkachenko. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Blackentina features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Blackentina is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 4 curated font pairings available. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Blackentina

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Blackentina

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Blackentina 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 77). Blackentina performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Sergiy Tkachenko. 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 Blackentina

Blackentina embodies the 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith catalogs Blackentina in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Blackentina
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Accessibility & Usability

77
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Blackentina

Blackentina 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.

How Legible is Blackentina?

Blackentina 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: Blackentina

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.

Blackentina's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Blackentina Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Blackentina Effectively

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 Blackentina. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Blackentina in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

Get the Font

Blackentina Font Files

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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100
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600
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700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Blackentina Multilingual 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 447 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Blackentina License Information

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.

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