Fondamento

Name: Fondamento
Author: Vernon Adams

Fondamento captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Vernon Adams68% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Fondamento

Best Font Pairings for Fondamento

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Fondamento, including combinations with Montserrat, Uncut Sans and Merriweather.

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

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Character Set

Fondamento 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

Reading Text in Fondamento

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

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

When setting Fondamento 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Fondamento in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Fondamento';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fondamento');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Fondamento

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Fondamento's Details

Vernon Adams

Handwriting

Open Source

Fondamento, a distinctive script typeface, exhibits calligraphic beauty and cursive elegance, making it well-suited for signature elements. Its organic flow and natural rhythm contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for creative projects and invitations, Fondamento adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The font supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, covering a wide range of Western and Eastern E....

Fondamento was created by Vernon Adams. The typeface's Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary handwriting design.

As a Casual handwritten in the Vox-ATypI Scripts family, Fondamento casual handwriting tradition. Its disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure make it a strong fit for pull quotes and editorial accent text.

Fondamento is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

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Best Ways to Use Fondamento

Best Font Pairings for Fondamento

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Character Set

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Reading Text in Fondamento

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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What you can do

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