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Ft88

Ft88 commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Degheest Types84% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Ft88

01

Best Font Pairings for Ft88

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Ft88, including combinations with Santor, Ms Redesign and Format.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Ft88
02

Test Ft88 Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Ft88 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

Ft88 Specimen Gallery

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Ft88 Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Ft88 Specimen

Ft88

Ft88 is a display typeface by Degheest Types built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Ft88
Ft88
FT88
FT88TYPE
F

Tagline Pairings

Ft88— display typeface
Ft88By Degheest Types
Ft88TYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Ft88 Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Ft88 Typography Scale

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Ft88 primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Ft88 section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Ft88 subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Ft88 content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Ft88 minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Ft88 smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Reading Text in Ft88

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Ft88, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Ft88 demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Ft88 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.

Ft88 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 TextRegular16px24px0.5pxFt88 delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxFt88 italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxFt88 bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxFt88 typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxFt88 typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Ft88'; }

Quick Start

Adding Ft88 to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Ft88:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Ft88:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Ft88';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Ft88:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Styling with Ft88

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Ft88', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Ft88', 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        'ft88': ['Ft88', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-ft88">Your text here</p>

About

Ft88: History & Characteristics

Degheest Types
Display
Open Source

Ft88 Typeface font is an unusual display typeface combining blackletter aesthetics with bold weight, cursive elements, italic styling, and monospace characteristics. The unexpected fusion creates distinctive, genre-blending typography. This blackletter italic mono bold cursive display typeface excels in experimental design projects, fusion brand identities, unconventional publications, and applications embracing genre boundary-crossing. The unusual combination ensures uniqueness. Ft88 serves designers pursuing experimental typographic fusion. Pair with clean contrasting fonts.

Ft88 comes from the work of Degheest Types. 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, Ft88 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.

Ft88 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.

Ft88

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ft88

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Ft88's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Ft88 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: 84). Ft88 performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Degheest Types. 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 Ft88

Ft88 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith features Ft88 in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Ft88
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Accessibility & Usability

84
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Ft88

Ft88 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.

Ft88's Legibility

Ft88 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.

Ft88 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.

Ft88: Comfort in Extended Reading

Ft88 provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Ft88 Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Ft88. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Ft88 at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

How to Use Ft88 Effectively

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 Ft88. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ft88 in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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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

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

Legal

Usage Rights for Ft88

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.

Ft88 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 Ft88 ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.