Delhi

Name: Delhi
Author: Antonio Rodrigues Jr

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

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Displayby Antonio Rodrigues Jr48% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Delhi

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Delhi, including combinations with Citrica, Mononoki and Codetta.

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 Delhi 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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Delhi Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Delhi Specimen

Delhi

Delhi is a display typeface by Antonio Rodrigues Jr built for display contexts.

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Delhi

DELHI

DELHITYPE

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Delhi— display typeface

DelhiBy Antonio Rodrigues Jr

DelhiTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Delhi Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Delhi

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

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

When setting Delhi 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Integrating Delhi

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Delhi CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Delhi

Antonio Rodrigues Jr

Display

Open Source

Delhi font is a display typeface expressing retro character through Indian-inspired vintage construction for subcontinental nostalgic aesthetics. The distinctive letterforms project South Asian heritage suitable for Indian branding, Delhi tourism, and design projects celebrating Indian typographic traditions. Retro construction provides nostalgic warmth while Delhi influence adds regional character. Effective for Indian restaurants, cultural events, and South Asian heritage products.

Delhi was crafted by Antonio Rodrigues Jr. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Delhi features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Delhi 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.

Delhi

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Delhi

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Delhi 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: 48). Delhi works best at display sizes where its character can shine without compromising legibility.

Design Heritage

Designed by Antonio Rodrigues Jr. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Delhi

Delhi 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith catalogs Delhi in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Delhi

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Typefaces Like Delhi

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Delhi 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

Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Delhi

Delhi has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Reading Delhi: Legibility Factors

Delhi 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.

How Readable is Delhi?

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.

Visual Comfort with Delhi

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

Delhi Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Delhi Effectively

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

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Delhi Multilingual 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 195 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Delhi 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.

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

Delhi

Best Ways to Use Delhi

Best Font Pairings for Delhi

Test Delhi Font Pairings Live

In Context

Delhi Typography

Delhi

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Delhi

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 Delhi

Reading Delhi: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Delhi?

Visual Comfort with Delhi

Delhi Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Delhi Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Delhi

Best Ways to Use Delhi

Best Font Pairings for Delhi

Test Delhi Font Pairings Live

In Context

Delhi Typography

Delhi

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Delhi

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 Delhi

Reading Delhi: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Delhi?

Visual Comfort with Delhi

Delhi Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Delhi Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference