Ducados

Name: Ducados
Author: Rafael Ferran I Peralta

Ducados brings classic elegance to your typography with refined serifs that guide the eye through extended reading.

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Serifby Rafael Ferran I Peralta80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Ways to Use Ducados

Best Font Pairings for Ducados

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Ducados, including combinations with Braah, Amiko and Balinera.

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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In Context

Ducados Specimen Gallery

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Ducados Editorial Specimen

Ducados in Editorial Context

Ducados is a serif typeface by Rafael Ferran I Peralta suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Rafael Ferran I Peralta

Typeface Designer • Serif

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

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

Designed by Rafael Ferran I Peralta, Ducados balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Ducados Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Ducados Specimen

Ducados

Ducados is a serif typeface by Rafael Ferran I Peralta built for display contexts.

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Ducados

DUCADOS

DUCADOSTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Ducados— serif typeface

DucadosBy Rafael Ferran I Peralta

DucadosTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Ducados Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Ducados for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Ducados 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Ducados in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Ducados

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Ducados

Rafael Ferran I Peralta

Serif

Open Source

Ducados font is a condensed serif by Rafael Ferran I Peralta designed for space-efficient display typography with vertical emphasis. This narrow typeface maximizes information density while maintaining serif elegance, suited for poster design, editorial columns, and packaging where horizontal space is limited. Ducados brings refined condensed proportions to magazine layouts, narrow signage applications, and tight typographic compositions requiring vertical rhythm. The condensed character enables bold headlines in constrained spaces without sacrificing sophistication. Designers working on editorial mastheads, album art, or architectural signage will appreciate Ducados's efficient elegance. Pairs well with wider sans-serifs for contrasting proportion in layout design.

Ducados was designed by Rafael Ferran I Peralta. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Ducados features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for print-first layouts with sustained reading.

Ducados 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 Ducados

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

Classification

Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Ducados within the Classicals (Humanist, Garalde, Transitional) and Moderns (Didone) tradition, characterized by Bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and Modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. Serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Key technical strength: extensive weight and optical-size ranges in superfamilies.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). Ducados performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Rafael Ferran I Peralta. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Ducados

Ducados falls within the Classicals typeface, drawn from the tradition where serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Its distinctive bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it well-suited for print-first layouts with sustained reading. TypeSmith indexes Ducados in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Ducados

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Ducados 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

Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Ducados

Ducados achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. High-contrast Didones can cause halation for readers with astigmatism. Prefer Garalde or Transitional cuts at text sizes for inclusive readability.

Ducados Legibility Characteristics

Ducados draws legibility from its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Ducados's Readability

Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print. On screen, hinting quality determines legibility below 14 px. Set body text at 16 px or larger on screen, with line heights between 1.4 and 1.6 for sustained reading comfort.

Visual Comfort with Ducados

Ducados provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Ducados Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Ducados

Pair with geometric or grotesque sans-serifs for contrast. Avoid pairing two serifs from the same Vox sub-class to prevent visual redundancy. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Ducados. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ducados 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 321 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

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.

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

Ducados

Best Ways to Use Ducados

Best Font Pairings for Ducados

Test Ducados Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ducados Typography

Ducados

Character Set

Type Scale

Ducados for Paragraphs

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 Overview for Ducados

Ducados Legibility Characteristics

Ducados's Readability

Visual Comfort with Ducados

Ducados Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Ducados

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Ducados

Best Ways to Use Ducados

Best Font Pairings for Ducados

Test Ducados Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ducados Typography

Ducados

Character Set

Type Scale

Ducados for Paragraphs

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 Overview for Ducados

Ducados Legibility Characteristics

Ducados's Readability

Visual Comfort with Ducados

Ducados Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Ducados

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference