Brut Gothic

Name: Brut Gothic
Author: Jacob Rabinowitz

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

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Displayby Jacob Rabinowitz76% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Brut Gothic

Best Font Pairings for Brut Gothic

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Brut Gothic, including combinations with Paragon, Mr Henry and Coupeur Mono.

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

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Brut Gothic 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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Brut Gothic Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Brut Gothic Specimen

Brut Gothic

Brut Gothic is a display typeface by Jacob Rabinowitz built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Brut Gothic

BRUT GOTHIC

BRUT GOTHICTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Brut Gothic— display typeface

Brut GothicBy Jacob Rabinowitz

Brut GothicTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Brut Gothic Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Brut Gothic Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Brut Gothic 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Brut Gothic'; }

Quick Start

Using Brut Gothic in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Brut Gothic in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Brut Gothic Background & Features

Jacob Rabinowitz

Display

Open Source

Brut Gothic font is a display typeface projecting bold block presence through grotesque construction with strong logo-ready character. The powerful letterforms achieve maximum visual impact suitable for brutalist architecture branding, bold corporate identity, and design applications embracing raw typographic authority. Block grotesque forms create uncompromising presence while strong construction ensures dominant hierarchy. Effective for construction, urban development, and contemporary art institutions.

Brut Gothic was created by Jacob Rabinowitz. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Brut Gothic features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Brut Gothic is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Brut Gothic

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Brut Gothic

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Brut Gothic 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: 76). Brut Gothic performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Jacob Rabinowitz. 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 Brut Gothic

Brut Gothic is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith features Brut Gothic in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Brut Gothic

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Brut Gothic 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

Good Accessibility

Brut Gothic Accessibility Profile

Brut Gothic 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 Brut Gothic?

Brut Gothic 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.

How Readable is Brut Gothic?

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.

Brut Gothic's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Brut Gothic Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Brut Gothic

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

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

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

Legal

Font License Details

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.

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

Brut Gothic

Best Ways to Use Brut Gothic

Best Font Pairings for Brut Gothic

Test Brut Gothic Font Pairings Live

In Context

Brut Gothic Typography

Brut Gothic

Character Set

Type Scale

Brut Gothic Used As Body Text

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

Brut Gothic Accessibility Profile

How Legible is Brut Gothic?

How Readable is Brut Gothic?

Brut Gothic's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Brut Gothic Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Brut Gothic

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Brut Gothic

Best Ways to Use Brut Gothic

Best Font Pairings for Brut Gothic

Test Brut Gothic Font Pairings Live

In Context

Brut Gothic Typography

Brut Gothic

Character Set

Type Scale

Brut Gothic Used As Body Text

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

Brut Gothic Accessibility Profile

How Legible is Brut Gothic?

How Readable is Brut Gothic?

Brut Gothic's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Brut Gothic Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Brut Gothic

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference