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Lakehurst Gothic

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

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Displayby Lauren Herda76% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Lakehurst Gothic

01

Best Font Pairings for Lakehurst Gothic

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Lakehurst Gothic, including combinations with Mona Sans, Olympic and Gilland.

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

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Test Lakehurst Gothic Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Lakehurst Gothic 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

Lakehurst Gothic Specimen Gallery

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Lakehurst Gothic Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Lakehurst Gothic Specimen

Lakehurst Gothic

Lakehurst Gothic is a display typeface by Lauren Herda built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Lakehurst Gothic
Lakehurst Gothic
LAKEHURST GOTHIC
LAKEHURST GOTHICTYPE
L

Tagline Pairings

Lakehurst Gothic— display typeface
Lakehurst GothicBy Lauren Herda
Lakehurst GothicTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Lakehurst Gothic Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Lakehurst Gothic Typography Scale

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

Lakehurst Gothic for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Lakehurst Gothic 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Lakehurst Gothic in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Lakehurst Gothic in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Lakehurst Gothic Background & Features

Lauren Herda
Display
Open Source

Lakehurst Gothic font is a bold display typeface combining geometric precision with block construction and square proportions. The logo-ready character design projects stability and authority suitable for institutional branding, architectural signage, and corporate identity systems. Strong structural clarity ensures excellent reproduction from business cards to building facades. The geometric gothic aesthetic bridges traditional solidity with modern refinement. Complements clean sans-serif text faces for professional document hierarchy.

Lakehurst Gothic was created by Lauren Herda. 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, Lakehurst Gothic 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.

Lakehurst Gothic is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Lakehurst Gothic

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Lakehurst Gothic

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Lakehurst Gothic 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: 76). Lakehurst Gothic performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Lauren Herda. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Lakehurst Gothic

Lakehurst Gothic 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 Lakehurst Gothic in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Lakehurst Gothic
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Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Lakehurst Gothic Accessibility Profile

Lakehurst Gothic 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 Lakehurst Gothic?

Lakehurst Gothic 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.

Lakehurst Gothic 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 Lakehurst Gothic

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

Lakehurst Gothic Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Lakehurst Gothic

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

Get the Font

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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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100
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Lakehurst Gothic 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 175 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.

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