Dearest

Name: Dearest
Author: West Wind Fonts

Dearest offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Blackletterby West Wind Fonts62% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Dearest

Best Font Pairings for Dearest

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Dearest, including combinations with Theano Old Style, Noto Sans Lao Looped and Montserrat Subrayada.

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

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Test Dearest Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Dearest with any font combination in real-time, optimized for blackletter 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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Dearest Editorial Specimen

Dearest in Editorial Context

Dearest is a blackletter typeface by West Wind Fonts suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

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Typeface Designer • Blackletter

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

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

Designed by West Wind Fonts, Dearest balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Dearest Typography

A blackletter typeface for UI components.

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Dearest Specimen

Dearest

Dearest is a blackletter typeface by West Wind Fonts built for display contexts.

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Dearest— blackletter typeface

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Dearest Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Dearest

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

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

When setting Dearest 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Dearest'; }

Quick Start

Adding Dearest to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Dearest in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Dearest

West Wind Fonts

Blackletter

Open Source

Dearest is a free font from West Wind Fonts.

Dearest was crafted by West Wind Fonts. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Blackletter typeface in the Vox-ATypI Fractured classification, Dearest features angular fractured strokes with sharp diamond terminals and heavy stroke weight with minimal internal white space. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for newspaper mastheads and heritage publications.

Dearest 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.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Dearest

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

Classification

Blackletter analysis. Typographic analysis places Dearest within the Fractured (Textura, Rotunda, Schwabacher, Fraktur) tradition, characterized by Angular fractured strokes with sharp diamond terminals and Heavy stroke weight with minimal internal white space. Blackletter originated with Gothic manuscript hands in 12th-century northern Europe. Key technical strength: historical authenticity for period-specific design work.

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Best Ways to Use Dearest

Best Font Pairings for Dearest

Test Dearest Font Pairings Live

In Context

Dearest Typography

Dearest

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Dearest

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

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Accessibility Features of Dearest

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Eye Strain Considerations for Dearest

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Getting the Most from Dearest

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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