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Broken Fax

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

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Displayby Nan Xyz86% Accessible
Characters799
Glyphs959
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Broken Fax

01

Best Font Pairings for Broken Fax

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

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Broken Fax
02

Test Broken Fax Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Broken Fax 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

Broken Fax Specimen Gallery

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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.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Broken Fax
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BROKEN FAX
BROKEN FAXTYPE
B

Tagline Pairings

Broken Fax— display typeface
Broken FaxBy Nan Xyz
Broken FaxTYPE

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Broken Fax

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

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxBroken Fax delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxBroken Fax italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxBroken Fax bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxBroken Fax typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxBroken 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.

1

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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 86). Broken Fax maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

3

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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Accessibility & Usability

86
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.

Get the Font

Broken Fax Font Files

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
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.