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Knewave

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

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Displayby Tyler Finck61% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Knewave

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Best Font Pairings for Knewave

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Knewave, including combinations with Montserrat, Lato and Marti.

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

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Test Knewave Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Knewave 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

Knewave Specimen Gallery

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Knewave Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Knewave Specimen

Knewave

Knewave is a display typeface by Tyler Finck built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Knewave
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Tagline Pairings

Knewave— display typeface
KnewaveBy Tyler Finck
KnewaveTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Knewave Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Knewave

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

Knewave Body Typography

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

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

When setting Knewave 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.

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

Quick Start

Knewave Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Knewave';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Knewave');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Knewave CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Knewave

Tyler Finck
Display
Open Source

Knewave achieves distinctive personality and creative expression, making it well-suited for posters. Its bold presence and artistic expression contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for brand identities and posters, Knewave adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Knewave font supports the Latin script, covering a wide range of Western European languages..

Knewave was created by Tyler Finck. 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, Knewave 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.

Knewave 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.

Knewave

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Knewave

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Knewave 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: 61). Knewave offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Tyler Finck. 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 Knewave

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

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Knewave
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Accessibility & Usability

61
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Using Knewave Accessibly

Knewave 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 Knewave: Legibility Factors

Knewave 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.

Knewave 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.

Visual Comfort with Knewave

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

Knewave Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Knewave

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

Get the Font

Download Weights & Variants

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
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Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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

Knewave font supports the Latin script, covering a wide range of Western European languages.

Legal

Knewave 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.

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