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David Carson

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

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Displayby Iordanis Passas70% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use David Carson

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Best Font Pairings for David Carson

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for David Carson, including combinations with Brandink Sans, Arumira and Madhuban.

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

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02

Test David Carson Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview David Carson 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

David Carson Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
David Carson
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David Carson Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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David Carson Specimen

David Carson

David Carson is a display typeface by Iordanis Passas built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

David Carson
David Carson
DAVID CARSON
DAVID CARSONTYPE
D

Tagline Pairings

David Carson— display typeface
David CarsonBy Iordanis Passas
David CarsonTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

David Carson Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

David Carson Heading Hierarchy

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

David Carson Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting David Carson 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding David Carson to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

David Carson CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

David Carson: History & Characteristics

Iordanis Passas
Display
Open Source

David Carson font is a display typeface expressing creative unique character through experimental construction celebrating David Carson's deconstructionist design philosophy. The unconventional letterforms project punk design energy suitable for graphic design education, alternative publications, and projects embracing typographic rule-breaking. Unique construction challenges conventions while creative interpretation honors Carson's legacy. Effective for design studios, alternative media, and experimental communications.

David Carson was crafted by Iordanis Passas. 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, David Carson 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.

David Carson 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.

David Carson

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of David Carson

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places David Carson 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: 70). David Carson delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Iordanis Passas. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About David Carson

David Carson 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 David Carson in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for David Carson
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

70
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for David Carson

David Carson 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.

David Carson's Legibility

David Carson 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: David Carson

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.

David Carson for Long-Form Content

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

David Carson Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from David Carson

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

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David Carson 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 63 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

David Carson 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.

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