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Donut Hole

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

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Displayby Casper Schutte76% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Donut Hole

01

Best Font Pairings for Donut Hole

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Donut Hole, including combinations with Ygro Sans, Fairwall Sans and Messapia.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Donut Hole
02

Test Donut Hole Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Donut Hole 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

Donut Hole Specimen Gallery

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Donut Hole Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Donut Hole Specimen

Donut Hole

Donut Hole is a display typeface by Casper Schutte built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Donut Hole
Donut Hole
DONUT HOLE
DONUT HOLETYPE
D

Tagline Pairings

Donut Hole— display typeface
Donut HoleBy Casper Schutte
Donut HoleTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Donut Hole Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Donut Hole Heading Hierarchy

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

Body Text with Donut Hole

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

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

When setting Donut Hole 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Donut Hole in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Donut Hole

Casper Schutte
Display
Open Source

Donut Hole font is a bold display typeface featuring grotesk retro vintage letterforms. Fun and nostalgic, this design delivers doughnut shop aesthetics for bakery brands, cafe marketing, and sweet-themed communications. The retro styling creates period charm while grotesk foundation maintains readability. Designers working on donut shops, breakfast restaurants, and dessert packaging will appreciate the appetizing character. Pair with complementary body text.

Donut Hole was crafted by Casper Schutte. 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, Donut Hole 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.

Donut Hole 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.

Donut Hole

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Donut Hole

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Donut Hole 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: 76). Donut Hole performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Casper Schutte. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Donut Hole

Donut Hole 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 Donut Hole in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Donut Hole
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Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Donut Hole: Accessibility Considerations

Donut Hole 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.

Donut Hole's Legibility

Donut Hole 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.

Donut Hole 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 Donut Hole

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

Donut Hole Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

Get the Font

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Available Weights

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

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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
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  • Polish
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Baltic

  • Lithuanian
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  • Estonian

This font encodes 173 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.

Donut Hole 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 Donut Hole ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.