Felidae

Name: Felidae
Author: Daria Kazakova

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

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Serifby Daria Kazakova76% Accessible

Characters512

Glyphs614

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Best Font Pairings for Felidae

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Felidae, including combinations with Bagnard Sans, Ubuntu Sans Mono and Giphurs.

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

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

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

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In Context

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Felidae in Editorial Context

Felidae is a serif typeface by Daria Kazakova suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Daria Kazakova

Typeface Designer • Serif

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

Designed by Daria Kazakova, Felidae balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Felidae Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Felidae Specimen

Felidae

Felidae is a serif typeface by Daria Kazakova built for display contexts.

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Felidae

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Felidae— serif typeface

FelidaeBy Daria Kazakova

FelidaeTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Felidae Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Felidae for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Felidae 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Felidae in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Felidae CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Felidae

Daria Kazakova

Serif

Open Source

Felidae serif typeface delivers decorative, elegant antiqua forms with Cyrillic support through modern construction suited to distinctive display applications. Daria Kazakova's design creates sophisticated character for artistic branding, creative editorial, and specialized contexts. The decorative details add memorable personality while elegant proportions maintain refinement. Felidae's modern aesthetic serves specific stylistic needs. Display sizes showcase the typeface's decorative character. Pair with a conventional text face for readable body copy.

Felidae comes from the work of Daria Kazakova. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Felidae features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand identities conveying authority and heritage.

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

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Felidae

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

Classification

Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Felidae 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: 76). Felidae performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Daria Kazakova. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Felidae

Felidae embodies the Classicals typeface, anchored in 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 brand identities conveying authority and heritage. TypeSmith features Felidae in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Felidae

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Typefaces Like Felidae

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Felidae 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

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Felidae

Felidae 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.

Reading Felidae: Legibility Factors

Felidae 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.

How Readable is Felidae?

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 Felidae

Felidae 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.

Felidae Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Felidae Effectively

Pair with geometric or grotesque sans-serifs for contrast. Avoid pairing two serifs from the same Vox sub-class to prevent visual redundancy. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Felidae. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Felidae in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Felidae Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 167 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Felidae Licensing

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.

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

Felidae

Best Ways to Use Felidae

Best Font Pairings for Felidae

Test Felidae Font Pairings Live

In Context

Felidae Typography

Felidae

Character Set

Type Scale

Felidae 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 Felidae

Reading Felidae: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Felidae?

Visual Comfort with Felidae

Felidae Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Felidae Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Felidae

Best Ways to Use Felidae

Best Font Pairings for Felidae

Test Felidae Font Pairings Live

In Context

Felidae Typography

Felidae

Character Set

Type Scale

Felidae 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 Felidae

Reading Felidae: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Felidae?

Visual Comfort with Felidae

Felidae Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Felidae Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference