Jacquard

Name: Jacquard
Author: Sarah Cadigan Fried

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

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Displayby Sarah Cadigan Fried77% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Font Pairings for Jacquard

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Jacquard, including combinations with Agane, Arar and Quarry Digger.

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 Jacquard 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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Jacquard Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Jacquard Specimen

Jacquard

Jacquard is a display typeface by Sarah Cadigan Fried built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

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Jacquard

JACQUARD

JACQUARDTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Jacquard— display typeface

JacquardBy Sarah Cadigan Fried

JacquardTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Jacquard Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Jacquard Body Typography

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

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

When setting Jacquard 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Jacquard in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Jacquard in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Jacquard's Details

Sarah Cadigan Fried

Display

Open Source

Jacquard font is a blackletter display typeface featuring Gothic bitmap letterforms. Historical and digital, this design bridges medieval tradition with pixel aesthetics for gaming brands, fantasy entertainment, and historical projects with digital character. The blackletter construction creates authentic Gothic atmosphere while pixel influence adds unique digital edge. Designers working on fantasy games, Gothic products, and retro-medieval entertainment will appreciate the unusual combination. Pair with readable body text.

Jacquard was created by Sarah Cadigan Fried. 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, Jacquard features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

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

Jacquard

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Jacquard

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Jacquard 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: 77). Jacquard delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

Design Heritage

Designed by Sarah Cadigan Fried. 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 Jacquard

Jacquard 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 catalogs Jacquard in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Jacquard

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Related Fonts: Jacquard

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Jacquard 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

Jacquard Accessibility Profile

Jacquard 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.

Reading Jacquard: Legibility Factors

Jacquard 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 Jacquard?

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.

Jacquard: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Jacquard Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Jacquard

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 Jacquard. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Jacquard 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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400

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600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Jacquard 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 331 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

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.

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

Jacquard

Best Ways to Use Jacquard

Best Font Pairings for Jacquard

Test Jacquard Font Pairings Live

In Context

Jacquard Typography

Jacquard

Character Set

Type Scale

Jacquard Body Typography

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

Jacquard Accessibility Profile

Reading Jacquard: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Jacquard?

Jacquard: Comfort in Extended Reading

Jacquard Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Jacquard

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Jacquard

Best Ways to Use Jacquard

Best Font Pairings for Jacquard

Test Jacquard Font Pairings Live

In Context

Jacquard Typography

Jacquard

Character Set

Type Scale

Jacquard Body Typography

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

Jacquard Accessibility Profile

Reading Jacquard: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Jacquard?

Jacquard: Comfort in Extended Reading

Jacquard Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Jacquard

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference