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Lumad Free

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

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Displayby John Gabriel Ojales50% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Lumad Free

01

Best Font Pairings for Lumad Free

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Lumad Free, including combinations with Floraline, Merriweather and Mad Squire.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Lumad Free
02

Test Lumad Free Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Lumad Free 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.

Test Lumad Free Pairings Live

In Context

Lumad Free Specimen Gallery

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Lumad Free
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Lumad Free Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Lumad Free Specimen

Lumad Free

Lumad Free is a display typeface by John Gabriel Ojales built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Lumad Free
Lumad Free
LUMAD FREE
LUMAD FREETYPE
L

Tagline Pairings

Lumad Free— display typeface
Lumad FreeBy John Gabriel Ojales
Lumad FreeTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Lumad Free Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Lumad Free Heading Hierarchy

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

Reading Text in Lumad Free

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

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

When setting Lumad Free 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.

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

Quick Start

Lumad Free Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Lumad Free

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Lumad Free

John Gabriel Ojales
Display
Open Source

Lumad Free font is a bold display typeface with block construction, cool character, creative details, and decorative elements designed for powerful, indigenous Filipino applications. The substantial weight and native cultural styling create commanding, ethnic typography. This decorative creative cool bold block display typeface excels in Filipino indigenous branding, bold native advertising, cool tribal signage, and applications requiring bold cool creative decorative indigenous character. The Filipino indigenous peoples name establishes native Philippine context. Lumad Free serves designers creating Filipino indigenous experiences. Pair with clean supporting fonts.

Lumad Free was designed by John Gabriel Ojales. 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, Lumad Free features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Lumad Free is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Lumad Free

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Lumad Free

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Lumad Free 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: 50). Lumad Free handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by John Gabriel Ojales. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Lumad Free

Lumad Free falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 indexes Lumad Free in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Lumad Free
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Accessibility & Usability

50
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Lumad Free

Lumad Free 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: Lumad Free

Lumad Free 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.

Lumad Free 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.

Lumad Free's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Lumad Free Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Lumad Free

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 Lumad Free. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Lumad Free 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

Aa
100
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200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
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 83 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Lumad Free 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.

Lumad Free 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 Lumad Free ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.