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Digital Numbers

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

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Displayby Stephan Ahlf66% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Digital Numbers

01

Best Font Pairings for Digital Numbers

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Digital Numbers, including combinations with Zx Gamut, Getai Grotesk and Arar.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Digital Numbers
02

Test Digital Numbers Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Digital Numbers 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

Digital Numbers Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Digital Numbers
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Digital Numbers Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Digital Numbers Specimen

Digital Numbers

Digital Numbers is a display typeface by Stephan Ahlf built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Digital Numbers
Digital Numbers
DIGITAL NUMBERS
DIGITAL NUMBERSTYPE
D

Tagline Pairings

Digital Numbers— display typeface
Digital NumbersBy Stephan Ahlf
Digital NumbersTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Digital Numbers Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Digital Numbers

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

Reading Text in Digital Numbers

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

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

When setting Digital Numbers 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Digital Numbers to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Digital Numbers in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Digital Numbers

Stephan Ahlf
Display
Open Source

Digital Numbers font is a block digital geometric display typeface that combines numeric character with LED display-inspired aesthetic. The geometric construction creates distinctive presence with digital readout energy. This digital block font works effectively for digital display branding, numeric marketing, LED-style packaging, and digital readout content. The block aesthetic translates to digital signage, numeric materials, and LED social media graphics. Designers creating digital numeric content will find Digital Numbers delivers block digital presence. The geometric character adds LED dimension. Pairs well with digital fonts for consistency.

Digital Numbers comes from the work of Stephan Ahlf. 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, Digital Numbers 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.

Digital Numbers 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.

Digital Numbers

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Digital Numbers

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Digital Numbers 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: 66). Digital Numbers offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Stephan Ahlf. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Digital Numbers

Digital Numbers 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 features Digital Numbers in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Digital Numbers
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Accessibility & Usability

66
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Using Digital Numbers Accessibly

Digital Numbers 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: Digital Numbers

Digital Numbers 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.

Readability Profile: Digital Numbers

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.

Digital Numbers: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Digital Numbers Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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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 256 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.

Digital Numbers 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 Digital Numbers ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.