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Donor Type

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

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Displayby Adote70% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Donor Type

01

Best Font Pairings for Donor Type

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Donor Type, including combinations with Costa Rica, Anouvong and Poltawski Nowy.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Donor Type
02

Test Donor Type Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Donor Type 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

Donor Type Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Donor Type
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Donor Type Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Donor Type Specimen

Donor Type

Donor Type is a display typeface by Adote built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Donor Type
Donor Type
DONOR TYPE
DONOR TYPETYPE
D

Tagline Pairings

Donor Type— display typeface
Donor TypeBy Adote
Donor TypeTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Donor Type Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Donor Type

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

Body Text with Donor Type

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

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

When setting Donor Type 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.

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

Quick Start

Donor Type Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Donor Type in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Donor Type

Adote
Display
Open Source

Donor Type font is a creative display typeface with unique character designed for distinctive, memorable applications that stand apart from conventional typography. The unconventional letterforms create differentiated, attention-grabbing presence. This unique creative display typeface excels in distinctive brand identities, experimental publications, creative agency materials, and applications prioritizing typographic originality. The giving name suggests generosity. Donor Type serves designers pursuing creative distinction. Pair with clean supporting fonts.

Donor Type comes from the work of Adote. 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, Donor Type 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.

Donor Type 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.

Donor Type

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Donor Type

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Donor Type 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: 70). Donor Type maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Adote. 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 Donor Type

Donor Type 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 Donor Type in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Donor Type
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Accessibility & Usability

70
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Donor Type: Accessibility Considerations

Donor Type achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Donor Type's Legibility

Donor Type 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.

Donor Type in Context: Readability

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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Donor Type

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

Donor Type Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

Get the Font

Donor Type Font Files

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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

Legal

Donor Type 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.

Donor Type 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 Donor Type ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.