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Kino 40

Kino 40 commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Les83Machines70% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Kino 40

01

Best Font Pairings for Kino 40

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Kino 40, including combinations with New Heterodox Mono, Caslon Antique and Cactron.

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

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02

Test Kino 40 Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Kino 40 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

Kino 40 Specimen Gallery

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Kino 40 Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Kino 40 Specimen

Kino 40

Kino 40 is a display typeface by Les83Machines built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Kino 40
Kino 40
KINO 40
KINO 40TYPE
K

Tagline Pairings

Kino 40— display typeface
Kino 40By Les83Machines
Kino 40TYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Kino 40 Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Kino 40 Used As Heading Examples

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

Kino 40 Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Kino 40, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Kino 40 demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Kino 40 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.

Kino 40 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 TextRegular16px24px0.5pxKino 40 delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxKino 40 italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxKino 40 bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxKino 40 typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxKino 40 typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Kino 40'; }

Quick Start

Kino 40 Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Kino+40:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Kino+40:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Kino 40';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Kino+40:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Kino 40 in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Kino 40', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Kino 40', 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        'kino-40': ['Kino 40', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-kino-40">Your text here</p>

About

Kino 40 Background & Features

Les83Machines
Display
Open Source

Kino 40 font is a display typeface expressing cool vintage character through 1940s cinema construction for golden age film aesthetics. The distinctive letterforms project wartime cinema authority suitable for classic film branding, movie theater applications, and design projects celebrating 1940s typography. Cool vintage forms provide period authenticity while kino (cinema) influence adds film heritage character. Effective for classic film festivals, vintage theaters, and film history.

Kino 40 was designed by Les83Machines. 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, Kino 40 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.

Kino 40 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.

Kino 40

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Kino 40

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Kino 40's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Kino 40 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: 70). Kino 40 delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Les83Machines. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Kino 40

Kino 40 falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 indexes Kino 40 in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

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5 curated pairings for Kino 40
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Accessibility & Usability

70
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Kino 40 Accessibility Profile

Kino 40 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.

How Legible is Kino 40?

Kino 40 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: Kino 40

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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Kino 40

Kino 40 provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Kino 40 Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Kino 40. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Kino 40 at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Best Practices for Using Kino 40

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 Kino 40. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Kino 40 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
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Kino 40 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 82 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Kino 40 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.

Kino 40 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 Kino 40 ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.