Clarity City

Name: Clarity City
Author: Vmware

Clarity City delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Vmware88% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Ways to Use Clarity City

Best Font Pairings for Clarity City

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Clarity City, including combinations with Pinked Hearts, Kikuta and Dirga.

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 Clarity City with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif 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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Clarity City Editorial Specimen

Clarity City in Editorial Context

Clarity City is a sans serif typeface by Vmware suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

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Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Clarity City demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Clarity City supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Vmware, Clarity City balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Clarity City Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Clarity City Specimen

Clarity City

Clarity City is a sans serif typeface by Vmware built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

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Clarity City

CLARITY CITY

CLARITY CITYTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Clarity City— sans serif typeface

Clarity CityBy Vmware

Clarity CityTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Clarity City Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Clarity City Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Clarity City 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Clarity City'; }

Quick Start

Clarity City Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Clarity City

Vmware

Sans Serif

Open Source

Clarity City Typeface font is a contemporary corporate grotesk by Vmware designed for enterprise software and digital product applications. This basic family delivers reliable cross-platform typography optimized for interface design. Clarity City excels in admin dashboards, enterprise apps, and technical documentation where consistent rendering matters. The balanced proportions ensure comfortable reading at interface sizes. Particularly suited for B2B software, cloud platforms, and developer tools. The corporate character maintains professional neutrality. Works alongside code fonts in technical contexts. Pairs with serif fonts for formal documentation contrast.

Clarity City was created by Vmware. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Clarity City features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications.

Clarity City is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Clarity City

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Clarity City

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

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Clarity City within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 88). Clarity City performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

Design Heritage

Designed by Vmware. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Clarity City

Clarity City is classified as a Lineal typeface, rooted in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for wayfinding, signage, and information design. TypeSmith catalogs Clarity City in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Clarity City

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Fonts Similar to Clarity City

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Clarity City 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

Using Clarity City Accessibly

Clarity City scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Clarity City Legibility Characteristics

Clarity City draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Clarity City in Context: Readability

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Clarity City

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

Clarity City Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Clarity City

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Clarity City. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Clarity City in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Clarity City 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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400

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700

800

900

Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 305 glyphs covering Latin. 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

Clarity City 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.

Clarity City 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 Clarity City 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 'clarity-city': ['Clarity City', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-clarity-city">Your text here</p>

Clarity City

Best Ways to Use Clarity City

Best Font Pairings for Clarity City

Test Clarity City Font Pairings Live

In Context

Clarity City Typography

Clarity City

Character Set

Type Scale

Clarity City 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

Using Clarity City Accessibly

Clarity City Legibility Characteristics

Clarity City in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Clarity City

Clarity City Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Clarity City

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Clarity City

Best Ways to Use Clarity City

Best Font Pairings for Clarity City

Test Clarity City Font Pairings Live

In Context

Clarity City Typography

Clarity City

Character Set

Type Scale

Clarity City 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

Using Clarity City Accessibly

Clarity City Legibility Characteristics

Clarity City in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Clarity City

Clarity City Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Clarity City

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference