Harmattan

Name: Harmattan
Author: Victor Gaultney

Harmattan delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Victor Gaultney90% Accessible

Characters516

Glyphs619

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Best Ways to Use Harmattan

Best Font Pairings for Harmattan

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Harmattan, including combinations with Heebo, Maitree and Hedvig Letters Sans.

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 Harmattan with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Harmattan Editorial Specimen

Harmattan in Editorial Context

Harmattan is a sans serif typeface by Victor Gaultney suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Victor Gaultney

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Harmattan demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Harmattan supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Victor Gaultney, Harmattan balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Harmattan Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Harmattan Specimen

Harmattan

Harmattan is a sans serif typeface by Victor Gaultney built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

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Harmattan— sans serif typeface

HarmattanBy Victor Gaultney

HarmattanTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Harmattan Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Reading Text in Harmattan

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

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

When setting Harmattan 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Harmattan in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Harmattan';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Harmattan');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Harmattan

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Harmattan

Victor Gaultney

Sans Serif

Open Source

Harmattan delivers organic warmth and natural flow, making it well-suited for digital interfaces. Its geometric forms and no decorative strokes contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for web content and digital interfaces, Harmattan adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Harmattan font primarily supports languages that use the Arabic script, focusing on the needs of....

Harmattan was crafted by Victor Gaultney. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Harmattan's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Harmattan features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements.

Harmattan is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Best Ways to Use Harmattan

Best Font Pairings for Harmattan

Test Harmattan Font Pairings Live

In Context

Harmattan Typography

Harmattan

Character Set

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Reading Text in Harmattan

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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