Glitch

Name: Glitch
Author: Nan Xyz

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

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Displayby Nan Xyz86% Accessible

Characters799

Glyphs959

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Glitch

Best Font Pairings for Glitch

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Glitch, including combinations with Elevatia, Tropikal and Paragon.

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

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

A display typeface for UI components.

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Glitch Specimen

Glitch

Glitch is a display typeface by Nan Xyz built for display contexts.

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Glitch

GLITCH

GLITCHTYPE

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Glitch— display typeface

GlitchBy Nan Xyz

GlitchTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Glitch Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Glitch Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Glitch 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Glitch in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Glitch's Details

Nan Xyz

Display

Open Source

Glitch font is a bold display typeface with Cyrillic support designed for digital-damaged, error-themed multilingual applications. The substantial weight and corrupted styling create commanding, contemporary typography. This bold Cyrillic display typeface excels in digital error branding, bold glitch-art advertising, distinctive Eastern European design, and applications requiring bold glitch character with Slavic support. The digital damage name describes the aesthetic. Glitch serves designers creating glitch multilingual experiences. Pair with clean fonts for contrast.

Glitch was designed by Nan Xyz. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

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

Glitch is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Glitch

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Glitch

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Glitch 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: 86). Glitch maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

Design Heritage

Designed by Nan Xyz. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Glitch

Glitch 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 event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith features Glitch in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Glitch

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Related Fonts: Glitch

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Glitch 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

Glitch Accessibility Profile

Glitch 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.

Glitch Legibility Characteristics

Glitch 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.

Glitch's Readability

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.

Glitch: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Glitch Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Glitch

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

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 685 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew. 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

License Type

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.

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

Glitch

Best Ways to Use Glitch

Best Font Pairings for Glitch

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In Context

Glitch Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Glitch Used As Body Text

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

Glitch Accessibility Profile

Glitch Legibility Characteristics

Glitch's Readability

Glitch: Comfort in Extended Reading

Glitch Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Glitch

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Glitch

Best Ways to Use Glitch

Best Font Pairings for Glitch

Test Glitch Font Pairings Live

In Context

Glitch Typography

Glitch

Character Set

Type Scale

Glitch Used As Body Text

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

Glitch Accessibility Profile

Glitch Legibility Characteristics

Glitch's Readability

Glitch: Comfort in Extended Reading

Glitch Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Glitch

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference