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Durendal Oliphant

Durendal Oliphant commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Tup Wanders82% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
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Best Ways to Use Durendal Oliphant

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Best Font Pairings for Durendal Oliphant

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Durendal Oliphant, including combinations with Piazzolla, Intrigora and Binchotan.

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

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Test Durendal Oliphant Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Durendal Oliphant 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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Durendal Oliphant Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Durendal Oliphant Specimen

Durendal Oliphant

Durendal Oliphant is a display typeface by Tup Wanders built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Durendal Oliphant
Durendal Oliphant
DURENDAL OLIPHANT
DURENDAL OLIPHANTTYPE
D

Tagline Pairings

Durendal Oliphant— display typeface
Durendal OliphantBy Tup Wanders
Durendal OliphantTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Durendal Oliphant Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Durendal Oliphant Typography Scale

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

Durendal Oliphant Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Durendal Oliphant 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Durendal Oliphant to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Durendal Oliphant

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Durendal Oliphant

Tup Wanders
Display
Open Source

Durendal Oliphant font is a bold decorative fancy display typeface that combines powerful strokes with medieval sword and horn-inspired character. The fancy construction creates commanding presence with medieval decorative energy. This decorative bold font works effectively for medieval fantasy branding, sword decorative marketing, fancy medieval packaging, and fantasy content. The decorative aesthetic translates to medieval signage, fancy materials, and fantasy social media graphics. Designers creating medieval fantasy content will find Durendal Oliphant delivers bold decorative presence. The fancy character adds medieval dimension. Pairs well with serif fonts for body text.

Durendal Oliphant comes from the work of Tup Wanders. 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, Durendal Oliphant 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.

Durendal Oliphant is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Durendal Oliphant

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Durendal Oliphant

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Durendal Oliphant 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: 82). Durendal Oliphant delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Tup Wanders. 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 Durendal Oliphant

Durendal Oliphant represents a Graphic typeface, grounded 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 Durendal Oliphant in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Durendal Oliphant
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Accessibility & Usability

82
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Durendal Oliphant

Durendal Oliphant 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.

Durendal Oliphant Legibility Characteristics

Durendal Oliphant 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.

Durendal Oliphant 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.

Durendal Oliphant's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Durendal Oliphant Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Durendal Oliphant: Best Practices

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Durendal Oliphant. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Durendal Oliphant 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

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

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 427 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.

Durendal Oliphant 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 Durendal Oliphant ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.