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Kobata

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

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Displayby Ariel Martin Perez73% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Kobata

01

Best Font Pairings for Kobata

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Kobata, including combinations with Vaga Round, Didactic and Dse Typewriter.

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

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02

Test Kobata Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Kobata 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

Kobata Specimen Gallery

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Kobata Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Kobata Specimen

Kobata

Kobata is a display typeface by Ariel Martin Perez built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Kobata
Kobata
KOBATA
KOBATATYPE
K

Tagline Pairings

Kobata— display typeface
KobataBy Ariel Martin Perez
KobataTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Kobata Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Kobata

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

Reading Text in Kobata

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

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

When setting Kobata 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Kobata in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Kobata

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Kobata

Ariel Martin Perez
Display
Open Source

Kobata font is a display typeface combining creative geometric construction with bitmap-influenced character for distinctive digital aesthetics. The innovative letterforms project computational precision suitable for gaming applications, tech branding, and design projects celebrating pixel-era heritage. Geometric foundation provides structural reliability while bitmap influence adds authentic digital character. Effective for indie games, retro tech celebrations, and computational design. Complements modern geometric fonts.

Kobata comes from the work of Ariel Martin Perez. 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, Kobata 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.

Kobata is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Kobata

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Kobata

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Kobata 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: 73). Kobata performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Ariel Martin Perez. 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 Kobata

Kobata represents a Graphic typeface, anchored 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 Kobata in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
5 curated pairings for Kobata
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Accessibility & Usability

73
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Kobata

Kobata 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.

Kobata's Legibility

Kobata 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.

Kobata 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.

Visual Comfort with Kobata

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

Kobata Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Kobata

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

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Internationalization

Kobata 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 360 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

Font License Details

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.

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