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Lincoln Mitre

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

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Displayby David Bennewith76% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Lincoln Mitre

01

Best Font Pairings for Lincoln Mitre

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Lincoln Mitre, including combinations with Sono, Slender and Geor Grotesk.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Lincoln Mitre
02

Test Lincoln Mitre Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Lincoln Mitre 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

Lincoln Mitre Specimen Gallery

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Lincoln Mitre Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Lincoln Mitre Specimen

Lincoln Mitre

Lincoln Mitre is a display typeface by David Bennewith built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Lincoln Mitre
Lincoln Mitre
LINCOLN MITRE
LINCOLN MITRETYPE
L

Tagline Pairings

Lincoln Mitre— display typeface
Lincoln MitreBy David Bennewith
Lincoln MitreTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Lincoln Mitre Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Lincoln Mitre Typography Scale

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

Lincoln Mitre Body Typography

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

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

When setting Lincoln Mitre 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Lincoln Mitre

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Lincoln Mitre

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Lincoln Mitre

David Bennewith
Display
Open Source

Lincoln Mitre Typeface font is a display typeface with decorative details, stencil styling, technical character, and unique aesthetics designed for distinctive, presidential-angular applications. The ornamental stencil styling and historical associations create memorable, crafted typography. This unique tech stencil decorative display typeface works effectively in distinctive historical branding, decorative stencil publications, unique angular design, and applications requiring decorative tech stencil unique character. The American president with angular joint name establishes historical craft context. Lincoln Mitre serves designers creating distinctive historical experiences. Pair with clean supporting fonts.

Lincoln Mitre was crafted by David Bennewith. 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, Lincoln Mitre 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.

Lincoln Mitre 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.

Lincoln Mitre

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Lincoln Mitre

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Lincoln Mitre 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). Lincoln Mitre maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by David Bennewith. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Lincoln Mitre

Lincoln Mitre represents a Graphic typeface, grounded 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 catalogs Lincoln Mitre in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Lincoln Mitre
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Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Lincoln Mitre: Accessibility Considerations

Lincoln Mitre 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.

Lincoln Mitre's Legibility

Lincoln Mitre 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.

Lincoln Mitre 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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Lincoln Mitre

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

Lincoln Mitre Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Lincoln Mitre: Best Practices

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

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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300
Aa
400
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500
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600
Aa
700
Aa
800
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900

Internationalization

International Character 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 172 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Lincoln Mitre Licensing

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.

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