Frames

Name: Frames
Author: Nathan Laurent

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

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Displayby Nathan Laurent91% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Frames

Best Font Pairings for Frames

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Frames, including combinations with Reckoner, Dangdanghae and Kiwi Maru.

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

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Test Frames Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Frames 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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Frames Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Frames Specimen

Frames

Frames is a display typeface by Nathan Laurent built for display contexts.

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Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Frames

FRAMES

FRAMESTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Frames— display typeface

FramesBy Nathan Laurent

FramesTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Frames Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Frames

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

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

When setting Frames 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Frames in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Frames

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Frames

Nathan Laurent

Display

Open Source

Frames Typeface font is a bold contemporary display typeface family with creative details and grotesque foundation designed for systematic, distinctive applications. The family approach and sophisticated character provide comprehensive typography for creative professional projects. This creative grotesque bold contemporary family excels in creative agency branding, contemporary editorial systems, distinctive corporate communications, and applications requiring bold professionalism with character. The family enables complete hierarchies. Frames Typeface serves designers creating sophisticated creative systems. Pair within the family for consistency.

Frames comes from the work of Nathan Laurent. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Frames features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Frames 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.

Frames

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Frames

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Frames 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 91). Frames maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

Design Heritage

Designed by Nathan Laurent. 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 Frames

Frames embodies the 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith indexes Frames in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Frames

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Alternatives to Frames

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Frames based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Using Frames Accessibly

Frames 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.

Reading Frames: Legibility Factors

Frames 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 Frames?

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.

Frames: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Frames Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Frames: 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 Frames. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Frames in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Frames Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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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 encodes 358 glyphs covering Latin. 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 Frames

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.

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

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'frames': ['Frames', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-frames">Your text here</p>

Frames

Best Ways to Use Frames

Best Font Pairings for Frames

Test Frames Font Pairings Live

In Context

Frames Typography

Frames

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Frames

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Frames Accessibly

Reading Frames: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Frames?

Frames: Comfort in Extended Reading

Frames Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Frames: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Frames

Best Ways to Use Frames

Best Font Pairings for Frames

Test Frames Font Pairings Live

In Context

Frames Typography

Frames

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Frames

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Frames Accessibly

Reading Frames: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Frames?

Frames: Comfort in Extended Reading

Frames Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Frames: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference