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Hexagothic

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

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Displayby Zihan Li54% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Hexagothic

01

Best Font Pairings for Hexagothic

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Hexagothic, including combinations with Ygro Sans, Cossette Texte and Panamera.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Hexagothic
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Test Hexagothic Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Hexagothic 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

Hexagothic Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Hexagothic
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Hexagothic Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Hexagothic Specimen

Hexagothic

Hexagothic is a display typeface by Zihan Li built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Hexagothic
Hexagothic
HEXAGOTHIC
HEXAGOTHICTYPE
H

Tagline Pairings

Hexagothic— display typeface
HexagothicBy Zihan Li
HexagothicTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Hexagothic Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Hexagothic Used As Heading Examples

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

Body Text with Hexagothic

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

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

When setting Hexagothic 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Hexagothic

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Hexagothic CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Hexagothic

Zihan Li
Display
Open Source

Hexagothic font is a blackletter edgy geometric display typeface that combines traditional Gothic letterforms with hexagonal modern structure. The geometric construction creates distinctive presence with modern blackletter energy. This edgy geometric font works effectively for modern gothic branding, geometric dark marketing, hexagonal packaging design, and modern blackletter content. The blackletter aesthetic translates to geometric gothic signage, hexagonal materials, and modern dark social media graphics. Designers creating modern gothic content will find Hexagothic delivers edgy geometric presence. The blackletter character adds hexagonal dimension. Pairs strategically with sans-serif fonts for body text.

Hexagothic comes from the work of Zihan Li. 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, Hexagothic 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.

Hexagothic is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Hexagothic

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Hexagothic

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Hexagothic 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: 54). Hexagothic handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Zihan Li. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Hexagothic

Hexagothic embodies the 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 indexes Hexagothic in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Hexagothic
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Accessibility & Usability

54
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Hexagothic

Hexagothic falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Hexagothic's Legibility

Hexagothic 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.

Readability Profile: Hexagothic

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.

Hexagothic's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Hexagothic Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

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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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100
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Hexagothic Language Coverage

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

Legal

Hexagothic 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.

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