Gossip

Name: Gossip
Author: Deborah Khodanovich

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

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Displayby Deborah Khodanovich72% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Ways to Use Gossip

Best Font Pairings for Gossip

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Gossip, including combinations with Darker Grotesque, Caffeine Mono and F1 8.

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 Gossip 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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Gossip Typography

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Gossip Specimen

Gossip

Gossip is a display typeface by Deborah Khodanovich built for display contexts.

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Gossip

GOSSIP

GOSSIPTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Gossip— display typeface

GossipBy Deborah Khodanovich

GossipTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Gossip Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Gossip

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

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

When setting Gossip 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Integrating Gossip

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Gossip CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Gossip

Deborah Khodanovich

Display

Open Source

Gossip font is a blackletter creative decorative display typeface that combines traditional Gothic letterforms with secretive whisper character. The decorative construction creates distinctive presence with mysterious blackletter energy. This creative blackletter font works effectively for mysterious branding, gossip-themed marketing, secretive decorative packaging, and whisper content. The blackletter aesthetic translates to mysterious signage, gossip materials, and decorative social media graphics. Designers creating mysterious content will find Gossip delivers creative blackletter presence. The decorative character adds secretive dimension. Pairs strategically with serif fonts for body text.

Gossip was created by Deborah Khodanovich. 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, Gossip 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.

Gossip is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Gossip

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Gossip

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Gossip 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: 72). Gossip maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Deborah Khodanovich. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Gossip

Gossip is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted 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 event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith indexes Gossip in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Gossip

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Fonts Similar to Gossip

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Gossip 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

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Gossip

Gossip 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.

Gossip Legibility Characteristics

Gossip 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 Gossip?

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 Gossip

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

Gossip Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Gossip

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

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

International Character 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 100 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Gossip License Information

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.

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

Gossip

Best Ways to Use Gossip

Best Font Pairings for Gossip

Test Gossip Font Pairings Live

In Context

Gossip Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Gossip

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

Accessibility Features of Gossip

Gossip Legibility Characteristics

How Readable is Gossip?

Eye Strain Considerations for Gossip

Gossip Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Gossip

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Gossip

Best Ways to Use Gossip

Best Font Pairings for Gossip

Test Gossip Font Pairings Live

In Context

Gossip Typography

Gossip

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Gossip

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

Accessibility Features of Gossip

Gossip Legibility Characteristics

How Readable is Gossip?

Eye Strain Considerations for Gossip

Gossip Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Gossip

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference