Lida

Name: Lida
Author: Koteles Tamas

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

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Displayby Koteles Tamas76% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Lida

Best Font Pairings for Lida

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Lida, including combinations with Cartographer, Mohave and Gulax.

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

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Test Lida Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Lida 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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Lida Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Lida Specimen

Lida

Lida is a display typeface by Koteles Tamas built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

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Wordmark Explorations

Lida

LIDA

LIDATYPE

Tagline Pairings

Lida— display typeface

LidaBy Koteles Tamas

LidaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Lida 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 Lida

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

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

When setting Lida 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Integrating Lida

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Lida

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Lida: History & Characteristics

Koteles Tamas

Display

Open Source

Lida font is a display typeface featuring block construction with cool minimal character and confident visual presence. The structured letterforms project contemporary authority suitable for modern branding, editorial headlines, and design projects appreciating restrained typographic elegance. Block forms provide structural reliability while cool aesthetic adds distinctive personality without excess. Effective for architecture, fashion, and sophisticated lifestyle applications. Pairs with refined sans-serif text.

Lida was crafted by Koteles Tamas. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Lida features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Lida is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Lida

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Lida

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Lida 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: 76). Lida performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Koteles Tamas. 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 Lida

Lida embodies the 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith indexes Lida in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Lida

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Fonts Similar to Lida

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

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Using Lida Accessibly

Lida 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.

Reading Lida: Legibility Factors

Lida 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.

How Readable is Lida?

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.

Lida for Long-Form Content

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

Lida Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Lida

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

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Lida Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Lida 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 136 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Lida License Information

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.

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

Lida

Best Ways to Use Lida

Best Font Pairings for Lida

Test Lida Font Pairings Live

In Context

Lida Typography

Lida

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Lida

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

Using Lida Accessibly

Reading Lida: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Lida?

Lida for Long-Form Content

Lida Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Lida

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Lida

Best Ways to Use Lida

Best Font Pairings for Lida

Test Lida Font Pairings Live

In Context

Lida Typography

Lida

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Lida

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

Using Lida Accessibly

Reading Lida: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Lida?

Lida for Long-Form Content

Lida Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Lida

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference