Excessive

Name: Excessive
Author: Clara Dousson

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

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Displayby Clara Dousson76% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Excessive

Best Font Pairings for Excessive

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Excessive, including combinations with Ygro Sans, Patricia Sans and Belanosima.

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

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Test Excessive Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Excessive 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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Excessive Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Excessive Specimen

Excessive

Excessive is a display typeface by Clara Dousson built for display contexts.

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Wordmark Explorations

Excessive

EXCESSIVE

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Tagline Pairings

Excessive— display typeface

ExcessiveBy Clara Dousson

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Excessive Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Excessive

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

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

When setting Excessive 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Excessive to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Excessive';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Excessive: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: 'Excessive', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Excessive Background & Features

Clara Dousson

Display

Open Source

Excessive font is a bold display typeface featuring retro vintage letterforms. Strong and exuberant, this design delivers over-the-top aesthetics for entertainment brands, party products, and marketing embracing maximalist visual expression. The bold weight creates commanding presence while vintage styling adds nostalgic warmth. Designers working on entertainment venues, celebration marketing, and expressive branding will appreciate the unrestrained character. Pair with complementary body text.

Excessive was created by Clara Dousson. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Excessive features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Excessive 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.

Excessive

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Excessive

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

Excessive

Best Ways to Use Excessive

Best Font Pairings for Excessive

Test Excessive Font Pairings Live

In Context

Excessive Typography

Excessive

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Excessive

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

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Internationalization

Western European

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