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Los Gatos

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

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Displayby Jingyo70% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Los Gatos

01

Best Font Pairings for Los Gatos

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Los Gatos, including combinations with Kings Gambit, Bbh Sans Hegarty and Script No Script.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Los Gatos
02

Test Los Gatos Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Los Gatos 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

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Los Gatos Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Los Gatos Specimen

Los Gatos

Los Gatos is a display typeface by Jingyo built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Los Gatos
Los Gatos
LOS GATOS
LOS GATOSTYPE
L

Tagline Pairings

Los Gatos— display typeface
Los GatosBy Jingyo
Los GatosTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Los Gatos Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Los Gatos

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

Los Gatos Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Los Gatos 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.

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

Quick Start

Los Gatos Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Los Gatos

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Los Gatos

Jingyo
Display
Open Source

Los Gatos font is a bold geometric display typeface featuring heavy retro letterforms. Strong and nostalgic, this design delivers vintage Californian aesthetics for craft brands, boutique hospitality, and lifestyle products. The geometric foundation with heavy weight creates substantial presence while retro styling adds period charm. Designers working on craft breweries, local restaurants, and regional branding will appreciate the warm nostalgic character. Pair with complementary body text.

Los Gatos comes from the work of Jingyo. 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, Los Gatos 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.

Los Gatos is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Los Gatos

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Los Gatos

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Los Gatos 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: 70). Los Gatos performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Jingyo. 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 Los Gatos

Los Gatos 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 indexes Los Gatos in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

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4 curated pairings for Los Gatos
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Accessibility & Usability

70
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Los Gatos

Los Gatos 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.

How Legible is Los Gatos?

Los Gatos 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.

Los Gatos Reading Performance

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.

Los Gatos's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Los Gatos Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Los Gatos Effectively

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Los Gatos. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Los Gatos in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Los Gatos Font Files

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Los Gatos 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 99 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

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.

Los Gatos 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 Los Gatos ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.