Broken Fax

Name: Broken Fax
Author: Nan Xyz

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

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Displayby Nan Xyz86% Accessible

Characters799

Glyphs959

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TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Broken Fax, including combinations with Haskoy, Zt Ravigsfen and Nord Sud.

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

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Broken Fax Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Broken Fax Specimen

Broken Fax

Broken Fax is a display typeface by Nan Xyz built for display contexts.

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Tagline Pairings

Broken Fax— display typeface

Broken FaxBy Nan Xyz

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Broken Fax Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Broken Fax for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Broken Fax 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Broken Fax'; }

Quick Start

Adding Broken Fax to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Broken Fax in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Broken Fax

Nan Xyz

Display

Open Source

Broken Fax font is a bold display typeface with Cyrillic and Hebrew support and technical character designed for distorted, nostalgic technology multilingual applications. The substantial weight and degraded styling create commanding, atmospheric typography. This tech bold Cyrillic Hebrew display typeface excels in retro technology branding, distorted technical publications, nostalgic international design, and applications requiring bold degraded tech character with extended script support. The malfunctioning name describes the distorted aesthetic. Broken Fax serves designers creating retro tech multilingual experiences. Pair with clean supporting fonts.

Broken Fax comes from the work of Nan Xyz. 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, Broken Fax 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.

Broken Fax 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.

Broken Fax

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Broken Fax

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Broken Fax 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: 86). Broken Fax maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

Design Heritage

Designed by Nan Xyz. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Broken Fax

Broken Fax embodies the 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 indexes Broken Fax in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Broken Fax

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

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Broken Fax

Broken Fax scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Broken Fax's Legibility

Broken Fax 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.

Broken Fax in Context: 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.

Visual Comfort with Broken Fax

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

Broken Fax Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

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Broken Fax Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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700

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900

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

This font encodes 685 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew. 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

Broken Fax Licensing

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.

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

Broken Fax

Best Ways to Use Broken Fax

Best Font Pairings for Broken Fax

Test Broken Fax Font Pairings Live

In Context

Broken Fax Typography

Broken Fax

Character Set

Type Scale

Broken Fax for Paragraphs

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

Accessibility Features of Broken Fax

Broken Fax's Legibility

Broken Fax in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Broken Fax

Broken Fax Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Broken Fax: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Broken Fax

Best Ways to Use Broken Fax

Best Font Pairings for Broken Fax

Test Broken Fax Font Pairings Live

In Context

Broken Fax Typography

Broken Fax

Character Set

Type Scale

Broken Fax for Paragraphs

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

Accessibility Features of Broken Fax

Broken Fax's Legibility

Broken Fax in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Broken Fax

Broken Fax Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Broken Fax: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference