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Deep Down

Deep Down commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Nutshell Art56% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Deep Down

01

Best Font Pairings for Deep Down

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Deep Down, including combinations with Macherie, Arteks and Massa.

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

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02

Test Deep Down Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Deep Down 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

Deep Down Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Deep Down
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Deep Down Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Deep Down Specimen

Deep Down

Deep Down is a display typeface by Nutshell Art built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Deep Down
Deep Down
DEEP DOWN
DEEP DOWNTYPE
D

Tagline Pairings

Deep Down— display typeface
Deep DownBy Nutshell Art
Deep DownTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Deep Down Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Deep Down Heading Hierarchy

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

Reading Text in Deep Down

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

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

When setting Deep Down 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Deep Down to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Deep Down CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Deep Down

Nutshell Art
Display
Open Source

Deep Down font is a geometric display typeface with modern proportions and technical character designed for contemporary technology applications. The clean geometry and tech-influenced aesthetics create versatile, forward-thinking typography. This tech geometric modern display typeface excels in technology startup branding, modern corporate communications, technical documentation headers, and applications requiring clean technical presence. The evocative name suggests depth and exploration. Deep Down serves designers working with technology companies. Pair with complementary geometric sans-serifs.

Deep Down comes from the work of Nutshell Art. 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, Deep Down 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.

Deep Down 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.

Deep Down

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Deep Down

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Deep Down 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: 56). Deep Down offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Nutshell Art. 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 Deep Down

Deep Down represents a 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 Deep Down in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Deep Down
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Accessibility & Usability

56
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Deep Down Accessibility Profile

Deep Down falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Legibility Analysis: Deep Down

Deep Down 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.

Deep Down's 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.

Deep Down's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Deep Down Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Deep Down: Best Practices

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

Get the Font

Deep Down 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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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 124 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.

Deep Down 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 Deep Down ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.