Ishihara

Name: Ishihara
Author: Rob Hindley

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

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Displayby Rob Hindley53% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Ishihara Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Ishihara Specimen

Ishihara

Ishihara is a display typeface by Rob Hindley built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Ishihara

ISHIHARA

ISHIHARATYPE

Tagline Pairings

Ishihara— display typeface

IshiharaBy Rob Hindley

IshiharaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Ishihara 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 Ishihara

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

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

When setting Ishihara 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Integrating Ishihara

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Ishihara

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Ishihara's Details

Rob Hindley

Display

Open Source

Ishihara font is a bold decorative geometric display typeface that combines powerful strokes with color-test-inspired distinctive character. The geometric construction creates visually striking presence with ophthalmology reference energy. This decorative bold font works effectively for medical branding, optical industry marketing, vision-related packaging, and distinctive creative content. The geometric aesthetic translates to eye care signage, vision science materials, and creative test-inspired graphics. Designers creating vision-related content will find Ishihara delivers distinctive bold geometric presence. The decorative character adds medical scientific dimension. Pairs well with clean sans-serif fonts for body text.

Ishihara was created by Rob Hindley. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Ishihara 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.

Ishihara is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 4 curated font pairings available.

Ishihara

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ishihara

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Ishihara 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: 53). Ishihara offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by Rob Hindley. 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 Ishihara

Ishihara 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith indexes Ishihara in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Ishihara

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Ishihara 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

Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Ishihara

Ishihara 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.

Reading Ishihara: Legibility Factors

Ishihara 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.

Ishihara Reading Performance

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.

Ishihara: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Ishihara Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Ishihara

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 Ishihara. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ishihara 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

100

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Internationalization

Ishihara Multilingual 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 36 glyphs. Its character set does not fully cover a standard writing system, which is typical of display, symbol and ornament faces intended for short headline settings.

Legal

License Type

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.

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

Ishihara

Best Ways to Use Ishihara

Best Font Pairings for Ishihara

Test Ishihara Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ishihara Typography

Ishihara

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Ishihara

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 Overview for Ishihara

Reading Ishihara: Legibility Factors

Ishihara Reading Performance

Ishihara: Comfort in Extended Reading

Ishihara Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Ishihara

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Ishihara

Best Ways to Use Ishihara

Best Font Pairings for Ishihara

Test Ishihara Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ishihara Typography

Ishihara

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Ishihara

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 Overview for Ishihara

Reading Ishihara: Legibility Factors

Ishihara Reading Performance

Ishihara: Comfort in Extended Reading

Ishihara Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Ishihara

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference