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Filaris

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

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Displayby Dae 8467% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Filaris

01

Best Font Pairings for Filaris

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Filaris, including combinations with Accanthis, Arteks and Garamontio Sans.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Filaris
02

Test Filaris Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Filaris 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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In Context

Filaris Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Filaris
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Filaris Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Filaris Specimen

Filaris

Filaris is a display typeface by Dae 84 built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Filaris
Filaris
FILARIS
FILARISTYPE
F

Tagline Pairings

Filaris— display typeface
FilarisBy Dae 84
FilarisTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Filaris Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Filaris Used As Heading Examples

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

Reading Text in Filaris

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

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

When setting Filaris 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Filaris

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Filaris

Dae 84
Display
Open Source

Filaris font is a bold contemporary display typeface with heavy strokes that create substantial visual weight on the page. The cool, modern aesthetic balances authority with current design sensibilities for versatile display applications. This heavy display typeface performs exceptionally in brand wordmarks, poster headlines, packaging titles, and digital advertising where bold statements require typographic support. The contemporary character keeps designs feeling current while the weight ensures visibility across various scales and contexts. Filaris appeals to designers working with lifestyle brands, creative agencies, and media companies seeking confident typography. The letterforms avoid trendy extremes, providing longevity while maintaining visual interest. For balanced compositions, pair Filaris with a lighter-weight sans-serif like Assistant or Karla that creates clear hierarchy without visual competition.

Filaris comes from the work of Dae 84. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Filaris features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Filaris 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.

Filaris

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Filaris

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Filaris 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: 67). Filaris handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Dae 84. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Filaris

Filaris represents a Graphic typeface, anchored 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith features Filaris in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Filaris
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Accessibility & Usability

67
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Filaris Accessibility Profile

Filaris falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is Filaris?

Filaris 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.

Filaris 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.

Filaris's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Filaris Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Filaris: Best Practices

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Filaris. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Filaris in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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

Internationalization

Filaris 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 103 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Filaris

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.

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