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Forum

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

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Displayby Denis Masharov88% Accessible
Characters646
Glyphs775
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Forum

01

Best Font Pairings for Forum

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Forum, including combinations with Orbix, St Martin and Lato.

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

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02

Test Forum Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Forum 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

Forum Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Forum
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Forum Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Forum Specimen

Forum

Forum is a display typeface by Denis Masharov built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Forum
Forum
FORUM
FORUMTYPE
F

Tagline Pairings

Forum— display typeface
ForumBy Denis Masharov
ForumTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Forum Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Forum Heading Hierarchy

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

Forum for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Forum 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Forum in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Forum

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Forum

Denis Masharov
Display
Open Source

As a display typeface, Forum features distinctive personality and creative expression, making it well-suited for posters. Its unique personality and artistic expression contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for headlines and brand identities, Forum adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes This font supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to, Latin-based languages, C....

Forum was designed by Denis Masharov. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Forum's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Forum 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.

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

Forum

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Forum

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Forum 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: 88). Forum performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Denis Masharov. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Forum's letterform construction and spacing rhythm across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Forum

Forum 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 indexes Forum in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Forum
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

88
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Forum Accessibility Profile

Forum scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Legibility Analysis: Forum

Forum 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.

How Readable is Forum?

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.

Visual Comfort with Forum

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

Forum Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Forum

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 Forum. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Forum in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

Get the Font

Download Forum

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
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Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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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 supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to, Latin-based languages, Cyrillic script languages, and Greek, ensuring broad usability across different linguistic groups.

Legal

Forum 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.

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