Latimer Sans

Name: Latimer Sans
Author: Yourong Wang

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

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Displayby Yourong Wang67% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Latimer Sans

Best Font Pairings for Latimer Sans

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Latimer Sans, including combinations with Stetica, Assurant Standard and Suse Mono.

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

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Latimer Sans 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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Latimer Sans Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Latimer Sans Specimen

Latimer Sans

Latimer Sans is a display typeface by Yourong Wang built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Latimer Sans

LATIMER SANS

LATIMER SANSTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Latimer Sans— display typeface

Latimer SansBy Yourong Wang

Latimer SansTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Latimer Sans Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Latimer Sans

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

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

When setting Latimer Sans 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Latimer Sans'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Latimer Sans

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Latimer Sans CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Latimer Sans

Yourong Wang

Display

Open Source

Latimer Sans font is a creative display typeface with geometric construction, monospace proportions, square details, and technical character designed for distinctive, systematic technology applications. The fixed-width design and innovative styling create organized, memorable typography. This tech square geometric mono creative display typeface works effectively in distinctive developer branding, creative technical publications, unique systematic design, and applications requiring creative geometric mono tech distinction. The historical inventor name adds pioneering context. Latimer Sans serves designers creating distinctive systematic tech experiences. Pair with complementary monospace fonts.

Latimer Sans was created by Yourong Wang. 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, Latimer Sans 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.

Latimer Sans 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.

Latimer Sans

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Latimer Sans

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Latimer Sans 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 67). Latimer Sans handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by Yourong Wang. 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 Latimer Sans

Latimer Sans 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 features Latimer Sans in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Latimer Sans

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Latimer Sans based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Latimer Sans: Accessibility Considerations

Latimer Sans 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.

Legibility Analysis: Latimer Sans

Latimer Sans 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.

Latimer Sans 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.

Latimer Sans: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Latimer Sans Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Latimer Sans

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

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Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Latimer Sans 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 74 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Latimer Sans

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.

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

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'latimer-sans': ['Latimer Sans', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-latimer-sans">Your text here</p>

Latimer Sans

Best Ways to Use Latimer Sans

Best Font Pairings for Latimer Sans

Test Latimer Sans Font Pairings Live

In Context

Latimer Sans Typography

Latimer Sans

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Latimer Sans

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Latimer Sans: Accessibility Considerations

Legibility Analysis: Latimer Sans

Latimer Sans in Context: Readability

Latimer Sans: Comfort in Extended Reading

Latimer Sans Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Latimer Sans

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Latimer Sans

Best Ways to Use Latimer Sans

Best Font Pairings for Latimer Sans

Test Latimer Sans Font Pairings Live

In Context

Latimer Sans Typography

Latimer Sans

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Latimer Sans

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Latimer Sans: Accessibility Considerations

Legibility Analysis: Latimer Sans

Latimer Sans in Context: Readability

Latimer Sans: Comfort in Extended Reading

Latimer Sans Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Latimer Sans

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference