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EastMarket

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

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Retroby Nick's Fonts66% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use EastMarket

01

Best Font Pairings for EastMarket

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for EastMarket, including combinations with Fjord One, Folks-Light and Dubiel.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for EastMarket
02

Test EastMarket Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview EastMarket with any font combination in real-time, optimized for retro characteristics.

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

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In Context

EastMarket Specimen Gallery

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EastMarket Editorial Specimen

EastMarket in Editorial Context

EastMarket is a retro typeface by Nick's Fonts suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Nick's Fonts

Typeface Designer • Retro

EastMarket 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 EastMarket supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Nick's Fonts, EastMarket balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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EastMarket Typography

A retro typeface for UI components.

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EastMarket Specimen

EastMarket

EastMarket is a retro typeface by Nick's Fonts built for display contexts.

2 WeightsRetro Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

EastMarket
EastMarket
EASTMARKET
EASTMARKETTYPE
E

Tagline Pairings

EastMarket— retro typeface
EastMarketBy Nick's Fonts
EastMarketTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

EastMarket Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

EastMarket Typography Scale

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

EastMarket for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting EastMarket 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding EastMarket to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with EastMarket

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of EastMarket

Nick's Fonts
Retro
Open Source

EastMarket is a free font from Nick's Fonts.

EastMarket was designed by Nick's Fonts. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Retro typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, EastMarket features period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for vintage-inspired packaging and label design.

EastMarket is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

EastMarket

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of EastMarket

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

1

Classification

Retro analysis. Typographic analysis places EastMarket 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 66). EastMarket offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Nick's Fonts. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Retro with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About EastMarket

EastMarket falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 editorial illustration and poster design. TypeSmith features EastMarket in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for EastMarket
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Accessibility & Usability

66
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of EastMarket

EastMarket 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.

EastMarket Legibility Characteristics

EastMarket 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.

How Readable is EastMarket?

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.

EastMarket: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

EastMarket Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using EastMarket

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. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for EastMarket. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve EastMarket in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

EastMarket Language Coverage

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

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.

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