Mad Squire

Name: Mad Squire
Author: Nele Tullus

Mad Squire delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Nele Tullus80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Font Pairings for Mad Squire

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Mad Squire, including combinations with Zvin, Papercut and La Cerchia.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Mad Squire with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Mad Squire Editorial Specimen

Mad Squire in Editorial Context

Mad Squire is a sans serif typeface by Nele Tullus suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Nele Tullus

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Mad Squire demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Mad Squire supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Nele Tullus, Mad Squire balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Mad Squire Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Mad Squire Specimen

Mad Squire

Mad Squire is a sans serif typeface by Nele Tullus built for display contexts.

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Mad Squire— sans serif typeface

Mad SquireBy Nele Tullus

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Mad Squire Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Body Text with Mad Squire

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

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

When setting Mad Squire 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Mad Squire'; }

Quick Start

Adding Mad Squire to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Mad Squire Background & Features

Nele Tullus

Sans Serif

Open Source

Mad Squire typeface explores cool, decorative territory through geometric outline construction suited to creative display applications. Nele Tullus's design creates distinctive character for experimental branding, festival graphics, and artistic editorial. The outline treatment adds graphic dimension while geometric forms provide structure. Mad Squire's creative aesthetic appeals to music venues, cultural events, and design experiments. Display sizes showcase the typeface's decorative character. Pair with a solid, readable sans-serif for supporting content.

Mad Squire was designed by Nele Tullus. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Mad Squire features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications.

Mad Squire 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.

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Best Font Pairings for Mad Squire

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In Context

Mad Squire Typography

Mad Squire

Character Set

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Body Text with Mad Squire

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

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