Diner

Name: Diner
Author: David Rakowski

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

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Retroby David Rakowski66% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

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Best Font Pairings for Diner

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Diner, including combinations with Strait, Orbix and Soukou Mincho.

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

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

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Diner Editorial Specimen

Diner in Editorial Context

Diner is a retro typeface by David Rakowski suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

David Rakowski

Typeface Designer • Retro

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

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

Designed by David Rakowski, Diner balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Diner Typography

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Diner Specimen

Diner

Diner is a retro typeface by David Rakowski built for display contexts.

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Wordmark Explorations

Diner

DINER

DINERTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Diner— retro typeface

DinerBy David Rakowski

DinerTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Diner Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Diner Body Typography

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

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

When setting Diner 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Diner to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Diner

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Diner

David Rakowski

Retro

Open Source

Diner is a free font from David Rakowski.

Diner was crafted by David Rakowski. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Retro typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Diner features period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for period-themed restaurant and hospitality branding.

Diner 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 Diner

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

Classification

Retro analysis. Typographic analysis places Diner within the Graphic (Period Revival / Retro) tradition, characterized by Period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and Inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. Retro typefaces revive lettering styles from specific historical periods, typically mid-20th-century Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, or 1970s phototypesetting aesthetics. Key technical strength: instant visual era-signaling for thematic branding.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 66). Diner handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by David Rakowski. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Retro with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Diner

Diner embodies the Graphic typeface, anchored in the tradition where retro typefaces revive lettering styles from specific historical periods, typically mid-20th-century Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, or 1970s phototypesetting aesthetics. Its distinctive period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments make it well-suited for period-themed restaurant and hospitality branding. TypeSmith indexes Diner in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Diner

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Diner based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Diner

Diner falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative treatments like inlines and shadows can reduce contrast. Test against WCAG contrast ratios and avoid for essential interactive elements.

Diner Legibility Characteristics

Diner draws legibility from its period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Diner Reading Performance

Readability varies widely by source period. Art Deco geometrics can be quite legible; heavily ornamented Victorian revivals require large sizes and short text runs. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Diner: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Diner Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Diner

Pair with a complementary era-appropriate text face or a neutral modern sans-serif. Avoid mixing retro styles from different decades in the same layout. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Diner. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Diner 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

100

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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

This font encodes 394 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

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.

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

Diner

Best Ways to Use Diner

Best Font Pairings for Diner

Test Diner Font Pairings Live

In Context

Diner Typography

Diner

Character Set

Type Scale

Diner 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

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Diner

Diner Legibility Characteristics

Diner Reading Performance

Diner: Comfort in Extended Reading

Diner Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Diner

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Diner

Best Ways to Use Diner

Best Font Pairings for Diner

Test Diner Font Pairings Live

In Context

Diner Typography

Diner

Character Set

Type Scale

Diner 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

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Diner

Diner Legibility Characteristics

Diner Reading Performance

Diner: Comfort in Extended Reading

Diner Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Diner

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference