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Hyrax

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

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Displayby Joao Ares56% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Hyrax

01

Best Font Pairings for Hyrax

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Hyrax, including combinations with Xetbook, Zt Floogn and Simpleness.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Hyrax
02

Test Hyrax Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Hyrax 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

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Hyrax Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Hyrax Specimen

Hyrax

Hyrax is a display typeface by Joao Ares built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Hyrax
Hyrax
HYRAX
HYRAXTYPE
H

Tagline Pairings

Hyrax— display typeface
HyraxBy Joao Ares
HyraxTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Hyrax Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Hyrax Typography Scale

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

Hyrax Body Typography

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

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

When setting Hyrax 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Hyrax in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Hyrax

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Hyrax's Design

Joao Ares
Display
Open Source

Hyrax font is a bold chunky futuristic display typeface that combines powerful strokes with rock hyrax animal-inspired character. The futuristic construction creates commanding presence with chunky animal energy. This chunky bold font works effectively for animal branding, hyrax futuristic marketing, chunky creature packaging, and animal tech content. The bold aesthetic translates to animal signage, chunky materials, and futuristic social media graphics. Designers creating animal tech content will find Hyrax delivers bold chunky presence. The futuristic character adds creature dimension. Pairs well with tech fonts for body text.

Hyrax was crafted by Joao Ares. 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, Hyrax 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.

Hyrax is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Hyrax

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Hyrax

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Hyrax 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: 56). Hyrax handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Joao Ares. 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 Hyrax

Hyrax 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 Hyrax in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Hyrax
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Accessibility & Usability

56
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Hyrax

Hyrax 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.

Legibility Analysis: Hyrax

Hyrax 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.

Hyrax 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.

Hyrax for Long-Form Content

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

Hyrax Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Hyrax 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 Hyrax. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Hyrax 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

Aa
100
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200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
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 124 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Hyrax Licensing

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.

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