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Fifteen

Fifteen delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby David Van Gemeren100% Accessible
Characters846
Glyphs1,015
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Fifteen

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Best Font Pairings for Fifteen

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Fifteen, including combinations with Basker, Aerosol Menace and Cantique.

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

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Test Fifteen Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Fifteen with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans 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

Fifteen Specimen Gallery

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Fifteen Editorial Specimen

Fifteen in Editorial Context

Fifteen is a sans serif typeface by David Van Gemeren suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

David Van Gemeren

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

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

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

Designed by David Van Gemeren, Fifteen balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Fifteen Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Fifteen Specimen

Fifteen

Fifteen is a sans serif typeface by David Van Gemeren built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

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FIFTEEN
FIFTEENTYPE
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Tagline Pairings

Fifteen— sans serif typeface
FifteenBy David Van Gemeren
FifteenTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Fifteen Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Fifteen Used As Heading Examples

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

Body Text with Fifteen

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

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

When setting Fifteen 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.

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

Quick Start

Fifteen Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Fifteen CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Fifteen: A Closer Look

David Van Gemeren
Sans Serif
Open Source

Fifteen Typeface font is a geometric code family by David Van Gemeren with Cyrillic and Greek support for development environments. This family brings systematic precision to multilingual coding interfaces. Fifteen's geometric proportions and comprehensive script support suit international developer tools. The code optimization ensures comfortable programming. Particularly valuable for global software teams. Works for IDEs and terminals. Pairs with proportional fonts for mixed content.

Fifteen was designed by David Van Gemeren. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Fifteen features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications.

Fifteen is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Fifteen

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Fifteen

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

1

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Fifteen within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 100). Fifteen performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by David Van Gemeren. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Fifteen

Fifteen falls within the Lineal typeface, drawn from the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for wayfinding, signage, and information design. TypeSmith indexes Fifteen in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Fifteen
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Accessibility & Usability

100
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Fifteen

Fifteen scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Fifteen's Legibility

Fifteen draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Fifteen?

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Fifteen for Long-Form Content

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

Fifteen Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Fifteen

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Fifteen. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Fifteen in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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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

Fifteen 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 2625 glyphs covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. 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

Usage Rights for Fifteen

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.

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