Lambretta

Name: Lambretta
Author: Alvaro Espana Adame

Lambretta offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Slab Serifby Alvaro Espana Adame74% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Lambretta

Best Font Pairings for Lambretta

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Lambretta, including combinations with Mainlux, Cossette Texte and Gelasio.

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

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Test Lambretta Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Lambretta with any font combination in real-time, optimized for slab serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Lambretta Specimen Gallery

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Lambretta Editorial Specimen

Lambretta in Editorial Context

Lambretta is a slab serif typeface by Alvaro Espana Adame suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Alvaro Espana Adame

Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

Lambretta demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a slab serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Lambretta supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Alvaro Espana Adame, Lambretta balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Lambretta Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Lambretta Specimen

Lambretta

Lambretta is a slab serif typeface by Alvaro Espana Adame built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSlab Serif Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Lambretta— slab serif typeface

LambrettaBy Alvaro Espana Adame

LambrettaTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Lambretta Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Lambretta

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

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

When setting Lambretta 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Integrating Lambretta

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Lambretta

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Lambretta: History & Characteristics

Alvaro Espana Adame

Slab Serif

Open Source

Lambretta font is a bold retro slab-serif by Alvaro Espana Adame designed for nostalgic display applications with vintage Italian scooter culture energy. This characterful typeface delivers substantial presence suited for mod-era branding, vintage automotive graphics, and editorial design evoking 1960s European style. Lambretta excels in cafe racer merchandise, vintage transportation museums, and lifestyle content celebrating mid-century design heritage. The bold weight ensures visibility while retro details add authentic period character. Designers seeking slab-serifs with specific vintage European appeal will find Lambretta delivers appropriate nostalgic charm. Works well alongside geometric sans-serifs for modern contrast with vintage headlines.

Lambretta comes from the work of Alvaro Espana Adame. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Slab Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic classification, Lambretta features unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for branding for technology and industrial sectors.

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

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In Context

Lambretta Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Lambretta

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

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