Defera

Name: Defera
Author: Eliza Raquel

Defera captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Eliza Raquel76% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Font Pairings for Defera

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Character Set

Defera Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Defera Body Typography

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

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

When setting Defera 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Defera in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Defera

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Defera

Eliza Raquel

Handwriting

Open Source

Defera font is a handwriting typeface family expressing bold brush character through grunge hand-drawn construction for raw expressive aesthetics. The textured letterforms project artistic intensity suitable for creative branding, expressive themes, and design projects celebrating defera typography. Family structure enables comprehensive hierarchy while bold brush grunge forms add raw character. Effective for creative studios, expressive art, and raw communications.

Defera was created by Eliza Raquel. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Defera features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Defera is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, 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 Defera

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

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Best Ways to Use Defera

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Character Set

Type Scale

Defera Body Typography

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 Defera

Legibility Analysis: Defera

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions