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Linear Curve

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

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Displayby Matt Perkins56% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Linear Curve

01

Best Font Pairings for Linear Curve

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Linear Curve, including combinations with Ebbe, Alata and Des Malers Fraktur.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Linear Curve
02

Test Linear Curve Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Linear Curve 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

Linear Curve Specimen Gallery

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Linear Curve
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Linear Curve Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Linear Curve Specimen

Linear Curve

Linear Curve is a display typeface by Matt Perkins built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Linear Curve
Linear Curve
LINEAR CURVE
LINEAR CURVETYPE
L

Tagline Pairings

Linear Curve— display typeface
Linear CurveBy Matt Perkins
Linear CurveTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Linear Curve Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Linear Curve Used As Heading Examples

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

Linear Curve for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Linear Curve 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.

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

Quick Start

Linear Curve Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Linear Curve in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Linear Curve's Design

Matt Perkins
Display
Open Source

Linear Curve font is a bold display typeface expressing creative energy through handwriting-influenced grunge aesthetics. The raw character design projects authentic artistic intensity suitable for music promotion, streetwear branding, and alternative cultural projects. Grunge textures and handwritten gestures create organic imperfection that digital-native audiences appreciate. Particularly effective for independent music labels, skateboard culture, and urban lifestyle brands. Balance with clean sans-serifs for legible supporting content.

Linear Curve was crafted by Matt Perkins. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Linear Curve features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Linear Curve 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.

Linear Curve

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Linear Curve

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Linear Curve 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: 56). Linear Curve offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Matt Perkins. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Linear Curve

Linear Curve 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith catalogs Linear Curve in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Linear Curve
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

56
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Linear Curve: Accessibility Considerations

Linear Curve 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.

Linear Curve Legibility Characteristics

Linear Curve 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 Linear Curve?

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.

Linear Curve for Long-Form Content

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

Linear Curve Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

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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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600
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700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Linear Curve 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 53 glyphs covering Latin. 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.

Linear Curve 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 Linear Curve ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.