Deimos

Name: Deimos
Author: Matt Cole Wilson

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

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Slab Serifby Matt Cole Wilson61% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Deimos, including combinations with Roundex, Aber Mono and Zt Neue Ralewe.

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 Deimos with any font combination in real-time, optimized for slab serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Deimos Editorial Specimen

Deimos in Editorial Context

Deimos is a slab serif typeface by Matt Cole Wilson suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Matt Cole Wilson

Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

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

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

Designed by Matt Cole Wilson, Deimos balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Deimos Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Deimos Specimen

Deimos

Deimos is a slab serif typeface by Matt Cole Wilson built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSlab Serif Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Deimos

DEIMOS

DEIMOSTYPE

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Deimos— slab serif typeface

DeimosBy Matt Cole Wilson

DeimosTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Deimos Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Deimos for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Deimos 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Deimos in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Deimos

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Deimos's Details

Matt Cole Wilson

Slab Serif

Open Source

Deimos font is a typewriter-style monospace slab-serif by Matt Cole Wilson designed for nostalgic technical applications with vintage mechanical character. This characterful typeface delivers authentic typewriter presence suited for retro tech aesthetics, literary publishing, and editorial design evoking pre-digital era authenticity. Deimos excels in manuscript-style publications, creative writing applications, and vintage-inspired documentation where typewriter character adds romantic technical nostalgia. The monospace consistency maintains functional utility while vintage details create distinctive atmosphere. Designers seeking typewriter fonts with genuine mechanical character will find Deimos delivers appropriate nostalgic authenticity. Works well alongside clean serif body text for vintage editorial systems.

Deimos was designed by Matt Cole Wilson. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Slab Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic classification, Deimos features unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for wayfinding and signage systems.

Deimos 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.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Deimos

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

Classification

Slab Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Deimos within the Mechanistic (Slab Serif / Egyptienne) tradition, characterized by Unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and Low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. Slab serifs emerged in early 19th-century British advertising type, pioneered by Vincent Figgins around 1815. Key technical strength: consistent rendering across screen resolutions.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 61). Deimos offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by Matt Cole Wilson. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Slab Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Deimos

Deimos falls within the Mechanistic typeface, drawn from the tradition where slab serifs emerged in early 19th-century British advertising type, pioneered by Vincent Figgins around 1815. Its distinctive unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight make it well-suited for data-dense interfaces like dashboards and tables. TypeSmith catalogs Deimos in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Deimos

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Deimos 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

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Deimos

Deimos falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Monolinear slab designs reduce halation risk. Their sturdy structure aids recognition for readers with low vision or dyslexia.

Deimos's Legibility

Deimos draws legibility from its unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Deimos?

The uniform stroke weight and blocky serifs maintain legibility at small sizes on screen. Geometric slabs perform well in UI contexts where clarity is paramount. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Deimos for Long-Form Content

Deimos provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Deimos Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Deimos. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. For low-vision users, pair Deimos with high-contrast backgrounds and avoid setting below 18 px.

Design Tips for Deimos

Combine with humanist sans-serifs for warmth or with a contrasting Didone serif for editorial hierarchy. Avoid pairing with blackletter or heavy display faces. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Deimos. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Deimos in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Deimos Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

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

Legal

Deimos Licensing

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.

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

Deimos

Best Ways to Use Deimos

Best Font Pairings for Deimos

Test Deimos Font Pairings Live

In Context

Deimos Typography

Deimos

Character Set

Type Scale

Deimos for Paragraphs

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

Accessibility Features of Deimos

Deimos's Legibility

How Readable is Deimos?

Deimos for Long-Form Content

Deimos Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Deimos

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Deimos

Best Ways to Use Deimos

Best Font Pairings for Deimos

Test Deimos Font Pairings Live

In Context

Deimos Typography

Deimos

Character Set

Type Scale

Deimos for Paragraphs

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

Accessibility Features of Deimos

Deimos's Legibility

How Readable is Deimos?

Deimos for Long-Form Content

Deimos Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Deimos

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference