Good Old Dos

Name: Good Old Dos
Author: Daymarius

Good Old Dos commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Daymarius85% Accessible

Characters933

Glyphs1,120

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Good Old Dos Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Good Old Dos Specimen

Good Old Dos

Good Old Dos is a display typeface by Daymarius built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Good Old Dos

GOOD OLD DOS

GOOD OLD DOSTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Good Old Dos— display typeface

Good Old DosBy Daymarius

Good Old DosTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Good Old Dos 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 Good Old Dos

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

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

When setting Good Old Dos 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Good Old Dos'; }

Quick Start

Adding Good Old Dos to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Good Old Dos

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Good Old Dos

Daymarius

Display

Open Source

Good Old Dos Typeface font is a display typeface featuring retro tech outline family letterforms. Nostalgic and technical, this design delivers vintage computing aesthetics for tech history products, retro gaming, and DOS-era celebrations. The outline options add creative flexibility while retro tech styling captures genuine period atmosphere. Designers working on computer history museums, retro merchandise, and nostalgic tech products will appreciate the authentic character. Pair with monospace body text.

Good Old Dos comes from the work of Daymarius. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Good Old Dos features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Good Old Dos 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.

Good Old Dos

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Good Old Dos

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Good Old Dos 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: 85). Good Old Dos performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

Design Heritage

Designed by Daymarius. 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 Good Old Dos

Good Old Dos represents a Graphic typeface, grounded 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith features Good Old Dos in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Good Old Dos

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

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Good Old Dos Accessibility Profile

Good Old Dos 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.

Good Old Dos's Legibility

Good Old Dos 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.

Good Old Dos in Context: 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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Good Old Dos

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

Good Old Dos Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Good Old Dos

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

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Good Old Dos Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

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700

800

900

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 740 glyphs covering Latin, Greek, 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

Font License Details

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.

Good Old Dos 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 Good Old Dos 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 'good-old-dos': ['Good Old Dos', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-good-old-dos">Your text here</p>

Good Old Dos

Best Ways to Use Good Old Dos

Best Font Pairings for Good Old Dos

Test Good Old Dos Font Pairings Live

In Context

Good Old Dos Typography

Good Old Dos

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Good Old Dos

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

Good Old Dos Accessibility Profile

Good Old Dos's Legibility

Good Old Dos in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Good Old Dos

Good Old Dos Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Good Old Dos

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Good Old Dos

Best Ways to Use Good Old Dos

Best Font Pairings for Good Old Dos

Test Good Old Dos Font Pairings Live

In Context

Good Old Dos Typography

Good Old Dos

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Good Old Dos

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

Good Old Dos Accessibility Profile

Good Old Dos's Legibility

Good Old Dos in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Good Old Dos

Good Old Dos Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Good Old Dos

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference