Dela Gothic One

Name: Dela Gothic One
Author: Takaaki Suzuki

Dela Gothic One commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Takaaki Suzuki67% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Dela Gothic One Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Dela Gothic One Specimen

Dela Gothic One

Dela Gothic One is a display typeface by Takaaki Suzuki built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Dela Gothic One

DELA GOTHIC ONE

DELA GOTHIC ONETYPE

Tagline Pairings

Dela Gothic One— display typeface

Dela Gothic OneBy Takaaki Suzuki

Dela Gothic OneTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Dela Gothic One Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Dela Gothic One

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

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

When setting Dela Gothic One 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Dela Gothic One'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Dela Gothic One

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Dela Gothic One';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Dela+Gothic+One');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Dela Gothic One

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Dela Gothic One

Takaaki Suzuki

Display

Open Source

Dela Gothic One achieves unique character and distinctive personality, making it well-suited for posters. Its artistic expression and distinctive character contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for headlines and brand identities, Dela Gothic One adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Dela Gothic One supports a wide range of languages, including extensive Latin character sets, which ....

Dela Gothic One comes from the work of Takaaki Suzuki. 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, Dela Gothic One 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.

Dela Gothic One 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.

Dela Gothic One

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Dela Gothic One

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Dela Gothic One 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 67). Dela Gothic One handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by Takaaki Suzuki. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Dela Gothic One

Dela Gothic One 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 catalogs Dela Gothic One in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Dela Gothic One

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Dela Gothic One 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

Using Dela Gothic One Accessibly

Dela Gothic One 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.

Reading Dela Gothic One: Legibility Factors

Dela Gothic One 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.

Dela Gothic One Reading Performance

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.

Dela Gothic One: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Dela Gothic One Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Dela Gothic One: 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 Dela Gothic One. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Dela Gothic One in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

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Internationalization

International Character 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

Dela Gothic One supports a wide range of languages, including extensive Latin character sets, which cover most Western European languages, as well as Japanese with its inclusion of hiragana, katakana, and kanji characters. This makes it a versatile font choice for multilingual projects and designs.

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.

Dela Gothic One 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 Dela Gothic One 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 'dela-gothic-one': ['Dela Gothic One', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-dela-gothic-one">Your text here</p>

Dela Gothic One

Best Ways to Use Dela Gothic One

Best Font Pairings for Dela Gothic One

Test Dela Gothic One Font Pairings Live

In Context

Dela Gothic One Typography

Dela Gothic One

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Dela Gothic One

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

Using Dela Gothic One Accessibly

Reading Dela Gothic One: Legibility Factors

Dela Gothic One Reading Performance

Dela Gothic One: Comfort in Extended Reading

Dela Gothic One Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Dela Gothic One: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Dela Gothic One

Best Ways to Use Dela Gothic One

Best Font Pairings for Dela Gothic One

Test Dela Gothic One Font Pairings Live

In Context

Dela Gothic One Typography

Dela Gothic One

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Dela Gothic One

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

Using Dela Gothic One Accessibly

Reading Dela Gothic One: Legibility Factors

Dela Gothic One Reading Performance

Dela Gothic One: Comfort in Extended Reading

Dela Gothic One Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Dela Gothic One: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference