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Font Over

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

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Displayby Ilya Zakharov80% Accessible
Characters512
Glyphs614
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Font Over

01

Best Font Pairings for Font Over

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Font Over, including combinations with Nf Code, Roundo and Abordage.

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

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02

Test Font Over Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Font Over 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

Font Over Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Font Over
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Font Over Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Font Over Specimen

Font Over

Font Over is a display typeface by Ilya Zakharov built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Font Over
Font Over
FONT OVER
FONT OVERTYPE
F

Tagline Pairings

Font Over— display typeface
Font OverBy Ilya Zakharov
Font OverTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Font Over Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Font Over Heading Hierarchy

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

Font Over for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Font Over 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Font Over to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Font Over

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Font Over

Ilya Zakharov
Display
Open Source

Font Over Typeface font is a display face featuring bitmap retro construction with square proportions and extended Cyrillic support. The systematic letterforms project digital heritage authenticity suitable for gaming applications, Eastern European tech branding, and design projects celebrating pixel-era typography. Bitmap square forms provide period character while Cyrillic support enables international reach. Effective for retro gaming, tech nostalgia, and computational design.

Font Over was designed by Ilya Zakharov. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Font Over features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

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

Font Over

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Font Over

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Font Over 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: 80). Font Over delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Font Over

Font Over falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith catalogs Font Over in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Font Over
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Accessibility & Usability

80
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Font Over Accessibility Profile

Font Over achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Font Over's Legibility

Font Over 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.

Font Over Reading Performance

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.

Font Over's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Font Over Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Font Over

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Font Over. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Font Over in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Font Over Font Files

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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100
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200
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400
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500
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600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Language Support

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

Legal

Usage Rights for Font Over

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.

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